COVID and the housing market

[Dresden]

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Government money = government specs = higher costs = guaranteed payment for over runs.

As someone who works in building municipal facilities, this is the correct but let me elaborate a little:

Government employees = no one wants to take the fault/decision and risk their cushy pension/zero incentive to save costs = over engineer and quadruple check everything + change and re-change everything five times = higher costs = guaranteed to go over budget.

But hey, us vendors and Baystreet consulting firms are quite happy.

 

[mimico_polak]

As someone who works in building municipal facilities, this is the correct but let me elaborate a little:

Government employees = no one wants to take the fault/decision and risk their cushy pension/zero incentive to save costs = over engineer and quadruple check everything + change and re-change everything five times = higher costs = guaranteed to go over budget.

But hey, us vendors and Baystreet consulting firms are quite happy.

This is it right there. As an OPS employee the hardest part is getting a decision out of someone, anyone.

Needs to be studied, confirmed, re-validated, re-confirmed etc etc.

Costs go up astronomically as nobody (contractors included) wants to sign on the dotted line.

But as they say ‘the worst decision is no decision’.

I make decisions in the smaller value and if things screw up…oops. Big dollars go up the chain.

Dealing with an issue where no one wants to sign because the decision is a $15M decision…so it’s easier to say ‘not enough info and I need more’…they just never tell you when ‘more’ is enough.

 

[nobbie48]

As someone who works in building municipal facilities, this is the correct but let me elaborate a little:

Government employees = no one wants to take the fault/decision and risk their cushy pension/zero incentive to save costs = over engineer and quadruple check everything + change and re-change everything five times = higher costs = guaranteed to go over budget.

But hey, us vendors and Baystreet consulting firms are quite happy.

A neighbour had business repairing physio equipment and to drum up work, went to a couple of hospitals offering to test their equipment for free.

They declined because if he pointed out a problem they would be obligated to fix it and messing with their budgets.

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