HandoverHandover: The last month…
The last month
Handover is due and somebody asks for the as-built drawings.
Stevie's journey · Engineering · Story 7
Drawn versus built
Forty design drawings, one afternoon, one rubber stamp that says AS BUILT.
The wrong way
One afternoon
The design drawings get AS BUILT stamped on them. Forty drawings, one afternoon, one stamp.
One afternoon
Rex: "Shouldn't someone check them first?" Everyone is very busy.
Back in month seven
The overflow manhole moved 1.2m to dodge a cable nobody knew about. It was agreed with a photo and a thumbs-up.
Handover
The client accepts the pack. Everyone goes home.
In useIn use: Two years later…
Two years later
The operator's crew digs where the drawing says the manhole is. They find a fence post. The manhole is 1.2m away, under a parked van.
The drawings said "as built". They meant "as drawn".
Find out what Stevie should have doneStevie's Lesson 7 · Drawn versus built, then the same story done the right way.