Thursday
The basement's base slab. Reinforcement fixed on Thursday. Concrete booked for Friday at 7am, because concrete is always booked for Friday at 7am.
Priya's journey · Assurance · Story 1
The inspection nobody planned
The concrete is booked for Friday at 7am. The inspection isn't booked at all.
The wrong way
Page 30
The client's inspection plan says the Clerk of Works inspects the reinforcement before any pour. It's on page 30. Nobody on site has met page 30.
BuildBuild: Friday, 6.55am…
Friday, 6.55am
Six trucks queue at the gate, and Rex waves them in. Priya rings Dave: "Has the steel been inspected?" Dave: "It looked fine. Pour it."
BuildBuild: Monday…
Monday
The Clerk of Works: Show me the reinforcement inspection.
The Clerk of Works. Not smiling.
Monday
There isn't one. There are four photos on Dave's phone, three of them of his thumb.
Three weeks
Cores are drilled through the new slab to prove the steel is there. Three weeks lost. Priya, quietly: "If it isn't written down, it didn't happen." Clerk of Works: "Exactly."
The steel was probably fine. Nobody could prove it.
Find out what Priya should have donePriya's Lesson 1 · The inspection nobody planned, then the same story done the right way.