Most standard architectural contracts as well as specifications and general notes include provisions that any questionable items or discrepancies discovered by the contractor must be brought to the architect’s attention. That’s also why construction observation by the architect is so important, precisely so such things can be nipped in the bud.
Besides that, what sort of fire station gets built with nothing more than a note about the sidewalk? The are supposed to be site plans, and if there was enough room to fit a 60’ sidewalk, how would they have known how far from the building it was supposed to be before it started (right up against the building? A few feet out for a planting bed? Near the street?). Sounds like negligence on both sides.
There is (was?) a church in San Pablo, California with a door like the one shown as “Exit for your mother in law.” My friend and I joked about sneaking there one night with a ladder to paint “Sinner’s Exit.”
Good grief. Building on a hillside may be unwise in some ways, but that’s a lot of what we have in LA. There are cultural and historical reasons–bad ones to be sure but there you go–why there are not as many multi-unit buildings as there should be for a city of our size, and so we have hill-clinging homes.
Also, earthquakes and landslides are a terrible danger, but buildings on the flats are more likely to suffer from liquefaction of the sandy soil in an earthquake. I believe that the big old apartment towers that do exist here are mostly retrofitted, but you’d probably be in more earthquake danger living in a small apartment building on the flats (say 10-30 units, 3-4 floors, ESPECIALLY with “underground” parking).
Yeah, we sure are morons. Unlike the people who build and rebuild on the flood plains of the Mississippi.
on the google street view in the upper left corner you can look at all the times the google car was in the neighborhood. it shows that from before 2007 til after 2012 there was no bridge (and the 2007 pic seems to show some significant wear on the paint; so maybe much earlier), something clearly went wrong with the build for something like that to happen.
My first inclination is to blame Viglink. They replace links with random garbage. But this particular behavior isn’t something I’ve seen before. Maybe add viglink.com to your block list to see if it fixes it. Otherwise suspect malware on your computer.
That manager is totally incompetent–to the point of bordering on criminal negligence.
“What is in the plans” includes both the numbers AND the graphics in the plans.
If the number “6 feet” is accidentally written as “60”, that’s the designer’s fault, not the construction manager’s.But if the number “60” is written on the plans in a space between two lines which are drawn so close together that they are 10 times too narrow for the supposed 60-foot width --then the contractor is obligated to notice the obvious mistake and inform the designer of the discrepency between the text and the graphics.
Both links worked fine for me. Anyway, it looks like a house that was converted to a duplex at some point, when they added some stairs and that new door/vestibule on the 2nd floor. Then maybe it was converted back to single-family, so they removed the stair to that upper door.
The link in post #51 appears to be fine. There was a different link in the post when he tried to fix it. It went to two different sites each time I clicked it.
