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Examples Of Dumb Things That CADOperators.com, LLC Will Prevent On Your Project:
Any design company can provide drawings; you should select one that uses common sense. The following photos are funny things that we have come across in recent years; they are funny to you and I, a nightmare for who they happened to.
- money tends to drive many things, including a blind eye. where did things go wrong in the photos below? Sure enough it started with the Civil drawings. Did the designer not know what those contour lines meant? The city naturally approved the drawings; they must have looked professional enough to slip by. How about the construction manager for the project? The customer was probably looking to save a couple thousand dollars by not hiring one.
One would ask why would the contractors start building knowing something must be wrong. They probably see stupid things on drawings every day and laugh about them at the dinner table. They are paid to build; they sometimes try to inform the responsible college educated architect, engineer or designer, but they are too proud to admit a mistake to someone swinging a hammer.
You'll find that tension is common, builders that come to us when they find errors on drawings are listened to and we are happy to add any mistakes to our lessons learned. We are not perfect (very close, hehe), but we will make corrections before construction and avoid costly nightmares for our customers. We prefer to coordinate with your builder to ensure he/she understands the drawings and look for any conflicts or possible changes before construction. Teamwork will ensure success with you project.
- Every one in the Architectural and Engineering fields understand the humor in the next photo right away. Architects and engineers get into those legal battles with contractors all the time. Every time a drawing changes after the contractor wins the bid for whatever reason, the architect or engineer instructs the drafter to use those silly revision clouds to highlight the areas of changes on the drawing.
Preparing for legal battles, they insist on documenting changes on drawings instead of working with the contractor once they realize mistakes or whatever reason they changed the drawings. What probably happened here was, the contractor tried discussing the situation and was told 'just build what you see on the drawings and stop asking for compensation for the changes'. The contractor probably didn't appreciate that holier than thou attitude and did just that
One would think if the big A/E firms would invest more bucks in the actual design to prevent change orders from the contractor instead of more bucks for lawyers, it would be a smooth successful project instead of expensive court battles. But that is just the way it works with big companies, someone has to pay for the big overhead of lawyers on payroll to fight those errors or changes in court. Who pays for all that? The customer.
- The next photo still has me scratching my head; it's a photo that I took around the corner from my home. If you look close, you can see paint peeling off and the windows have been painted a couple times which seems to indicate the age of the garage. Then you look at the size of the trees, they simply don't grow that big in a short period of time. When you start looking even closer, you notice there isn't even a curb cut for the drive into the garage.
Is this a great example of poor planning? What came first, the trees or the garage? If the garage, who decided it was a good idea to plant the trees there? If the trees, did they not discuss with the city if they can remove the trees from city property (20' from the road) before construction? There are so many things involved with a sucessful project, from the design on the drawings to coordination efforts with builders and authorities.
Let the Design and Drafting experience of CADOperators.com, LLC be a strong foundation to facilitate your dreams of building a new home correctly.
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