26th July 2011, 08:49 AM
BAJR Wrote:Imagine if companies agreed to minimum standards - such as cleaning the bases of eval trenches by hand ( though a 9k pipeline might be er... proplems) or that they will all put in for a public scaffold gantry on accessible sites. etc...
OR the UK adopts a similar system to the Dutch... I keep banging on about it... and desperately want to know why not! Come on IfA !! and Curators... adopt this! it creates a level playing field and tenders will be on quality!
http://www.sikb.nl/upload/documents/archeo/knauk.pdf
Dutch Archaeology Quality Standard. W.J.H. Willems & R.W. Brandt. Den Haag 2004
agreed (twice in the same visit - cripes!)
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers