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Who will pay for it?Who will pay for it?Posted Nov 1, 2011 2:02 UTC (Tue) by foom (subscriber, #14868)In reply to: Who will pay for it? by epa Parent article: The embedded long-term support initiative
> It is not good enough to put up an unsound building and return to fix it later when flaws are discovered. (It does happen, but is rare and shaming for the architects and builders involved.)
On the contrary, putting up a building with serious "bugs" is exceedingly common. Where it matters most (building will fall down), extra care is taken to make sure it won't fail in that way, but, for all the other ways a building can be broken, it's quite common for a new building to in fact *be* broken in all of those ways.
E.g. leaking excessive amounts of water, light switches are in stupid places that don't make any sense, HVAC doesn't work right (hot/cold areas), architect decided not to put stairwells in elevator lobby (but rather halfway across the building in a supposed-to-be-locked area), so it turns out it's illegal to actually lock the entrance to the floor from the (public) elevator lobby, etc...
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