Monday, December 8, 2008

where's the engineering?

been working for 1+ mth already, from the little projects so far, can tell civil engineering is not well-regarded here or quality engineering is not expected........

1. in 2 minor projects, clients refuse to grant CE site visits (abt $500 per visit due to airfare) for some design modification works

2. given equipment info are usually not complete and providers (even fellow colleagues) dun bother to show the equipment location on structures and its supporting points.

3. making assumptions to unknown design parameters without justification eg. assuming material grade of existing structures having no cals or dwgs

4. marginally adequate members (remember 0.95?) r usually regarded as still ok.

wow..........

3 comments:

Unknown said...

when in kiwiland, do as kiwis do.
no need to re-invent the wheel.

nzoink said...

kiwis heading for structural disaster if this carry on!

hmmm.... i dun know any similar 'nicoll highway' incident in NZ so far.....

Unknown said...

bon soir,
no one likes to fall.
they must or should have done their homework.
this is the land of lotr, expect miracles to happen!!!!