The good news is we only have to put up with it for another 30 years...
The good news is we only have to put up with it for another 30 years...
As a design professional, it is your duty and obligation as a professional to make sure your client does what they need to, not what they want to.
For Example:
Mr. Jones (Prosecuting Attorney): "Mr. Smith, your firm completed the structural design for the 30 story Diamond Skyscraper that collapsed, correct?"
Mr. Smith: "Yes"
Mr. Jones: "And where did you get your engineering degree from?"
Mr. Smith: "The University of North Dakota! GO SIOUX!!!!"
Judge: "ORDER!! ORDER!!! Order in my court room right now! One more outburst like that Mr. Smith and I'll have you held in contempt for creating a hostile and abusive courtroom!! Mr. Jones, you may continue."
Mr. Jones: "Mr. Smith, did you hear the testimony of Mr. Johnson, a graduate of North Dakota State University?"
Mr. Smith: "Yes I did."
Mr. Jones: "Mr. Smith, can you please summarize Mr. Johnson's testimony?"
Mr. Smith: "In a nutshell, he claims we used half the reinforcing steel and concrete in the support columns that we should have."
Mr. Jones: "Mr. Smith, would you say Mr. Johnson assertions are correct?"
Mr. Smith: "Yes, but the owner of the building told me to do that."
How do you suppose this trial is going to turn out in this example? Its no different for an architect complying with ADA requirements. That's one of the reasons people hire professionals. Every project you are going to be pressured to save costs and get asked "do we really have to do this that or the other thing.....". If the law says you do, then you do, there are certain things you don't get take design liberties with. You have to have a backbone to stand up to your client when the situation calls for it. I find it interesting the architect has been able to keep its name out of these kinds of stories.
The young in this country do not know enough to be prudent,
and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it generation after generation - Pearl S. Buck
Bisonville: Making football coaches out of arm-chair-QB's and jock sniffers for years!
Today's CAS GASF = ZERO
RELUCTANT MEMBER of the TOHBTC
And, don’t believe everything you think—jussayin’.
Liberals of BV need not respond to my posts. I don’t need to get any more dumb.
Bisonville: Making football coaches out of arm-chair-QB's and jock sniffers for years!
Today's CAS GASF = ZERO
RELUCTANT MEMBER of the TOHBTC
And, don’t believe everything you think—jussayin’.
Liberals of BV need not respond to my posts. I don’t need to get any more dumb.
Looks like this is TL Stroh's only arena. No surprise there.
It's really frustrating that with all the people who must have been involved with this, that nobody evidently had a clue what makes for a good arena.
When we were in Tulsa at ORU, yeah the Mabee Center was old and had its issues, but it at least looked and felt like a proper basketball arena. Even my 12 year old son noticed the difference.