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| Iraq |
| New Baghdad embassy's fire-fighting system is defective |
| 2008-01-14 |
| The boneheads there just don't seem to learn! Apparently there are problems with deadline pressures and shady construction/oversight practices, and a probe has been started. There's never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it again. Perhaps what needs to happen is to separate the team who estimates time/costs to do the project from those who actually do the project. There will be more pressure to do the estimation properly, and less pressure to try to sweep problems under the rug in the interests of maintaining a broken schedule. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #2 "Violations" to the Fire Code does not necessarily mean the system won't operate. There is much redundancy in the requirements and they could be a simple as the siren is not loud enough to hear everywhere. Maybe the reason the violations aren't delineated is because they're not really important. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2008-01-14 06:49 |
| #1 This was in Saturday's WaPo, so eith McClatchy or WaPo are into heavy plagiarism. Perspective story: first 5,000' long bridge for Dallas Area Rapid Transit built in 1991 does not have hydrants every 800'. It IS a concrete structure. Second 5,000' long bridge built in 1999 has hydrants every 800', fed by a dry standpipe system from the ground, but since the bridge crosses a floodplain, access to feed the standpipes from the ground is problematic. I'll ride over either bridge - and have - but the only difference between the two structures is a new Fire Marshall came in between the first and second bridges. You'll notice no one describes what any of these life-threatening embassy problems are? Too complex for the fifth estate to explain to us flyover folks? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2008-01-14 06:20 |