28th January 2013, 11:33 AM
Martin Locock Wrote:There's a difference between curators monitoring standards on a project-by-project basis, using the planning system to require conformity, and the IfA role: it requires ROs to put into place policies that should ensure routine performance to standard.
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anybody can put together a policy but unless it is policed it is just so much ink. the current market requires successful organisations to run on 'the least we can get away with' business model, which is currently a long way removed from any attempt to maintain/raise standards. diggers are expendable pawns, the least significant aspect of a project, yet weirdly they provide the substance of what is being sold. it is a nonsense to suggest that standards will be anyway maintained or improved when the primary facet is being exploited across the entire sector. a line has to be drawn and a stand has to be made.
for me the major cause for concern and probably the major factor in the flaws in the current system is rampant expansionism. this serves no purpose other than to generate wealth at the expense of labour.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers