20th December 2011, 09:59 AM
I've never really understood why there should be a problem sharing the main contractor's facilities - after all, they're also working for the developer, so the costs will be passed to the same client regardless. Particularly for things like the canteen, which would be standing empty for the majority of the day, it seems sensible to get as much use from it as possible by also allowing the archaeologists to eat their sandwiches in there. OK, you might have to stagger lunch and break times, so that the builders are in from 12 - 12:30 and the archaeologists from 12:30 to 1, but surely it's no skin off the main contractor's nose if the archaeologists sit in the canteen at a time when it would otherwise be empty.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum