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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
Do you guys think they just plop a tower down on mud? Lol
There’s so much engineering that goes on on a development like that. Not to mention there are dozens of towers closer to still creek..
It’s pure speculation this leak was even cause buy the adjacent construction?
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While you're absolutely right, you have to remember that developers are cost driven. Some are far worse than others.
Most construction documents will allow the contractor to set up its own QC for various things, and the Owner hires an independent firm to perform QA. For those that don't know the difference, essentially QA's role is to make sure QC is doing their job properly. There's often disagreement between the two, and arguments between the contractor and QA happen all the time.
Contractors usually hire the cheapest QC because they earn more $ that way, and the "firms" that win QC work often do so by hugely underbidding more respectable firms. Those are made up by paying poor wages, poor training, and generally poor work. I've had a QC technician show up to measure air in concrete with the entire dial gauge missing. Like imagine measuring tire pressure with a hose, and then writing some magical number down on the report. The respectable firms that are outbid are the ones that usually do the QA work; owners obviously trust them more, but QA covers roughly 10% of QC's work, if that.
So yes, there is huge engineering behind large projects such as these. Geotechnical reports alone are hundreds of pages, and recommendations are made so things like sidewalks shifting doesn't happen. Yet they do all the time, because at the end of the day, shitty people who work at shitty developers will do shitty things all for profit.