BuildBuild: Month seven…
Three weeks late
The designer is late with the valve chamber drawing. Site waits three weeks for it, with a gang standing by.
Stage 5 · Build it · Stop 7 of 13
Late, not extra
The back alley's bill so far: 117 weeks · See the bill
The information · A drawing, three weeks late
I was due three weeks ago. When I arrive late, that's a delay, and the dates on me prove it, if anyone kept them.
The wrong way
How it arrived
It comes by email. To Dave, the site manager. Then forwarded to a site engineer. Then a revised one to someone on holiday.
The search
Kofi, the commercial manager, needs to prove when it arrived. Six people search their inboxes. Six different answers, two emptied folders.
BuildBuild: The claim…
Two dates
The client's records say the drawing was issued on the 3rd. Ours show a forwarded email from the 24th, with no attachment.
Not one day
Kofi lays out everything he's got. It isn't much.
Kofi: Three weeks standing time, and I can't prove one day.
Failed
The claim fails. The firm pays for three weeks of a gang sitting on buckets. The buckets, at least, were free.
Three weeks late, six inboxes, and not one day anyone could prove.
+3 weeks on the back alley's bill: A delay nobody could prove: three weeks of a waiting gang, paid for by the firm.