22nd June 2005, 10:57 AM
On a watching brief I was working on a few years ago, the machine driver went through a big water pipe that flooded the site in the morning. After it got turned off and the water levels dropped, the same driver went back to work after lunch and blew up an electricity cable. The contractors had been assured by the client that there were no services on site, so they were a bit peeved - especially as the whole site was unsafe and everyone had to give up and leave until it was fixed.
Worst cock-up I was ever unfortunate enough to be involved with wasn't one of my own luckily, and was a methodological one which I've ranted on here about previously. Having to excavate within the 60cm wide foundations for a terrace of houses on a nicely-preserved early post-med manor in London. What a joke.
Worst cock-up I was ever unfortunate enough to be involved with wasn't one of my own luckily, and was a methodological one which I've ranted on here about previously. Having to excavate within the 60cm wide foundations for a terrace of houses on a nicely-preserved early post-med manor in London. What a joke.