On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: > > When I was working in construction (plumbing/HVAC), several of our jobs > had > > as a requirement for sign off, 'as-built' plans to be turned over as > part of > > our completion. We did in fact do this for every pipe run we installed > in > > the building or underground. > > People make mistakes. If you think you never did... well, you're > almost certainly mistaken. :-) > While I admit that in the first few months I tripped over every string line, fell into almost every ditch and stumbled over most of the stakes in the ground and occasionally got order deliverys wrong, I guarantee you that every pipe was within a foot of where I drew it. I worked for my dad and that pretty well focused me on doing one of the more enjoyable aspects of my job. :) > > ... make sure you got them before handing out the > > final check and they haven't been mislaid. > > That's yet another aspect of the problem. Fairly good plans could > have existed at some point, maybe. So they get filed away in the > facility manager's office. Changes happen as they do things. Then > the company goes out of business. Property changes hands a few times. > Has various tenants. Sits vacant for long stretches. At some point > the parking lot is repaved. Eventually, we buy it. We get whatever a > fourth-hand owning real estate company managed to dig up. I should be > glad there's a building shown. :-) > > -- Ben > > And this is a more realistic assesment of it. Where' the drawings go which is what we figured would happen with ours. Steven ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
