Friday, 4:05pm
Dave: Can you just send me the drawing for construction? We're pouring Monday morning.
Rex's first year · Story 8
Drawing 042 takes a shortcut
A drainage drawing, a Friday afternoon and a pour booked for Monday.
Rex's diary
Rex's diary, before this story. Week 12. Friday, 4pm. Dave needs a drawing for Monday. The proper one isn't published yet.
The quick way
Friday, 4:20pm
Alex: It's still being checked... I'll just send you a photo from my phone.
And so the drawing goes the quick way.
Monday, 7:30am
The gang builds from the photo propped on a cone. Nobody on site knows the pipe level changed during checking. What could possibly go wrong?
Three weeks later
The Clerk of Works: This pipe is 150mm higher than the drawing issued for construction.
Not smiling.
Can you find it later?
Dave and Rex search his email, his chats and a USB stick from the glovebox. The photo was on his old phone, which went back last week. Which version did they build from? Nobody has a clue.
Can you prove it?
The Clerk of Works: Can you show us what you were given, and who gave it to you?
No record, no proof. Kofi does the sums: the contractor pays to dig it all up and do it again. Ouch.
Dave got a drawing. Nobody can prove which one.
Find out how you should share your workLesson 8 · Sharing Your Work, then the same story done the right way.
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