6th December 2011, 03:55 PM
Sith Wrote:Eh? If the work isn't accepted by the Curator and my client doesn't get his planning conditions signed off, it's only going to cost him more money and me potentially my job. I can save him money by vetting proposals for further work and agreeing what is either essential or will be productive.
And yet the experience of some people on here still seems to be that consultants sometimes sign off on shoddy work? Shocking!
I've got a friend (unlikely, I know) who works as a curator, and who says that some consultants appear to attempt to minimise the significance of absolutely anything that's found, seemingly purely on the basis of saving money for the developer, and that it's a battle to get them to accept that there's any need for further on-site work or post-ex in any circumstance. I should stress that this is not a general attempt to bash consultants; as I said in my previous post, a good consultant can make a project run far more smoothly. However, it would be naive in the extreme to believe that there aren't some less-than-scrupulous consultants out there, just as there are some contractors who are happy to conduct poor fieldwork.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum