What's more important? Plans or People?

... If it were me... I would want the guy who would commit to being there for the entire project, and the one that makes it his daily duty to communicate all his ideas to the construction crew by teaching and example. If the archie knows he has better skilled machine operator shapers than he can do, then oversee them, rather than compete with them by climbing on the machine to do it yourself. But, if you are there while it is happening, I have little doubt some things will come up that would have been passed by if the project were strictly a construction by the plan, stick to the phasing, and stick to the pre-drawn concept.

Some of the passages in Strawn's book were a tweak at the commerce of "change orders" and how the construction companies can almost count on the bonus pay of archies who aren't around all the time, coming and changing their minds on things after they were half done by his previous drawn and preplanned design...

So, I come down on Tony's side of the craftsman-one course at a time VS multiple site supervision based on infrequent site visits - whether it is a tight process or not. That in my mind is the choice of the developer. If the developer is a greenhorn and doesn't take time to try to learn these things, then tough cookie and one gets what they bargain for, and may lose more in $ than the value of the time it should take to learn... RJ Daley http://golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,36235.0.html
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