Monday, 7am
Rex: Morning! Er… where's the site office? And who do I sign in with?
Nobody knows. There's a site toilet and a skip. Bev is still getting three quotes for the cabins.
Rex's first year · Story 5
Where do I put this?
Rex moves onto his first project site. It's day one. Nobody has set anything up.
Rex's diary
Rex's diary, before this story. Week 8. Moving to site on Monday. Asked where we keep everything once we're there. Got a shrug.
A site nobody connected
Monday, 8am
Dave: The client's sending everything by email. To everyone. Every hour.
Site manager, with 247 unread messages.
Tuesday
Alex: It's all on our system. Can't you just log in?
Rex: "With what?" Nothing connects the two firms' systems.
Wednesday
Three folders called Drawings, in three different places. Everyone picks a different one.
Thursday
Dave: Photos? On my phone. And the gaffer's. And the phone I dropped in the excavation.
Site photos, scattered across three phones.
The result
Two months in, they're still setting up the site, while trying to build on it.
Day one, and nothing was ready.
Find out how a site gets set upLesson 5 · The Project Site, then the same story done the right way.
Meet BevBuyer. Gets three quotes for everything, including the pens. And the site cabins.