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- DutchBoy
can an architect have/cause?
http://english.eastday.com/epubl…
http://www.news24.com/News24/Wor…
in a Dutch news source i read about an ongoing investigation of possible fraud on Andreu's Beijng project, while he's still being investigated on the collapse of the Paris airport terminal last week..
deep shit.
- unfittoprint0
too complex for a simple answer...
In a high profile projects there's a lot of sub-contracting works, quite specific disciplines of architecture and engineering [termic, security, fire safety inspections, water & sewers, stability].
In building like Chicago's Sears and at least 2 projects from NY's architectural biggest firm HOK it was discovered that some of the sub-contracters didn't respect specifications regarding beam junctions that would jeopardize the whole structure. 3 years after it was finished!!! they had to 'unpeel' some of the façade to solve it.
Sincerely I don't think this is a chain-of-command kind of hierarchy [altough it may vary from country to country] nor finding a middle-man scapegoat.
If the error is in the project itself, than it's not only his fault but also from those who approved [wich may be some municipality technicians]. If mistakes were made during construction instead, there the people that should supervise are also to blame.
- you0
i see.. and the fraud thing (not all over the media yet as it is still being investigated...) but the poor guy got a lot of shit against him this week..
- versa0
"Paris airport architect probed"
- you0
i suck at using multiple accounts!
:B
- you0
oops again.. see?
haha.. silly me.
- DutchBoy0
dang..
- kodap0
blame the engineers, not the architects
- DutchBoy0
well at least i could never be wendell.. :P
- DutchBoy0
still, this is all pretty sad.