I'd agreed with a contractor that they would fix one of their drawings and then roll out all the corrections across the drawings (this is the second time we've done this - the first time they took our coments, waited a week, didn't implement any of the comments and then uploaded all the drawings. Needless to say, we bulk rejected that revision ( ( Read more... )

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... )

The project I'm working on currently is the second phase of a development. I work directly for the design/build contractor and we also have a team that works directly for the Developer ( Read more... )

Hello neglected Livejournal! Is anyone still out there ( 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... )

So I had a coworker tell me that she wanted me to come to her desk to explain something to me. This was so important that she interrupted a meeting I was having. So I went to her desk and she spent five minutes explaining to me all the things I explained to her yesterday before she went on a site visit. I guess she thought I had forgotten. (Like ( Read more... )

You'd hope that the week after you sent a "Look, team, if you get an email that asks me to do something, you need to send it to me before I will actually do something. If you sit on it for five weeks while the Architect gets irate nothing will happen" people would tell me stuff ( 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... )