Get readyGet ready: Kick-off…
Everyone nods
Marcus, the client's project manager, says everything goes in the client's system. Everyone nods.
Marcus: Our system is the Site Office. Agreed?
Everyone: Agreed.
Stage 3 · Get ready · Stop 2 of 8
Which one's the real one?
The back alley's bill so far: 47 weeks · See the bill
The information · Three systems, each calling itself the real one
I need one home. Three systems all calling themselves the real one is how I end up in two places at once, disagreeing with myself.
The wrong way
Just for our bits
The lead firm's team keeps using its own system as well, "just for our bits". Designer Alex's firm keeps using theirs. Three systems, all lit up.
Two latest drawings
In week four, Stevie, the site engineer, puts the new survey in the client's system. Alex downloads last month's from his own. Now there are two "latest" inlet chambers.
DesignDesign: Week five…
Two drawings
Dave, the site manager, builds from one. The Clerk of Works, the client's eyes on site, checks against the other.
Clerk: This isn't what's on my drawing.
Dave: It's what's on mine.
Down it comes
The chamber wall built to the wrong drawing comes down and goes back up again. The gang now knows that wall very well.
The reconciling
Every Friday, Sam, the firm's information manager, reconciles three systems with a spreadsheet. The Clerk of Works is not smiling.
Three systems, two latest drawings, and a Clerk of Works who is not smiling.
+3 weeks on the back alley's bill: Three systems all calling themselves the real one: a rebuilt chamber wall and a Friday every week reconciling.