23rd October 2012, 09:11 AM
I agree with poodash that watchig briefs should be only be used after an evaluation has been undertaken. Where I would go further is that anywhere that watching briefs were sanctined the curator that agreed to them are allowed them should lose their jobs.
I remeber meeting someso called archaeologist from ove arup in the eighties going on about how they had got around the archaeology problem in london by using piles and not digging out basements but the joke was that he was a geotechnical engineer and his job was to go around and pump grout all around the piles?
Came across this bit of properganda : http://www.ciria.org/service/Web_Site/AM...entID=8984
I remeber meeting someso called archaeologist from ove arup in the eighties going on about how they had got around the archaeology problem in london by using piles and not digging out basements but the joke was that he was a geotechnical engineer and his job was to go around and pump grout all around the piles?
Came across this bit of properganda : http://www.ciria.org/service/Web_Site/AM...entID=8984
Reason: your past is my past