The project I'm currently working on is a design/build job and we are working as the services engineers for the contractor. Now the way all our contracts work is we do the design up to a point and then it gets taken on by the services subcontractors. The reason why it works this way is because the contractor is allowed to offer substitutions on the ( Read more... )

During the great recession, we gave up a lot of our office space and consolidated into our two main London buildings. Now business is booming and we have no place to grow to (and for some absurd reason we decided to rent out one of our floors to an architecture firm). The powers that be have been asking people to hotdesk and converting breakout ( Read more... )

First he emailed demanding that we send him our analysis for special system Y on Project X and also the contact information for A and B. You see, he wanted to write a paper about it ( Read more... )

Dear Coworker,

Thank you for adding X and Y to my drawings. If you had taken the full minute it would have taken to look at both my drawing sheets, you would have seen that X and Y already exist on sheet 2.

I can see why you are a director.

Nolove,

Me

For one of my projects the PM is trying to organize an end project luncheon but unfortunately it's currently scheduled for the Thursday of the week before I go on vacation. Oh and it's going to be at a place that is 45 minutes from my office, so basically the entire afternoon is pretty much shot ( Read more... )

So, the good old practically complete museum would now be past the work folly stage, but sadly, this is not to be. The sprinkler system is a DOUBLE interlock preaction system which receives as one its interlocks a DOUBLE knock signal from the fire alarm ( Read more... )

One of things about riding the above ground lines of the Tube is that sometimes animals also use the Tube to commute - like this fellow who commuted from Edgeware Road to Paddington. I assume he was getting a regular train from there.


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So I'm working on a project with some architects that I swear the moment you tell them not to do something, they decide that they must do the thing you told them not to do. This is a residential project and one of the cardinal rules on residential projects is don't run the services for one flat through the adjacent flat ( Read more... )

Last week I had my tri-annual site safety briefing. Why once every three years? Because that's how long hardhats are good for. It's actually written on the inside of our hardhats when we got them so we know when we should get a new one ( Read more... )

I was at work this week when one of my colleagues comes by and says "look, I'm running a [My Employer] PC on my phone. My mind is blown." He was using a nifty app called Citrix Receiver ( Read more... )