If you bring in a supplier and a trades person who is willing to speak
up don't they work to mitigate inappropriate material specs?  If you
get a well respected trades person to consult on your specs... isn't
he going to look at some crazy material and say:  I don't know what
that is, it doesn't seem right, and i don't know how to install it?  I
mean i guess the tradespersons also has their own biases towards the
materials that they have used in the past.

This sort of reminds me of how it seems to work in the medical
community... a paid spokesperson from the pharmaceutical company
taking doctors to expensive lunches, to give them an opportunity to
tell them all about the exciting new drug that no one has every heard
off except the FDA and it works great....

As far as i can tell we don't have an FDA for building materials?

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:22 AM, John Leeke
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>> The suppliers are writing the specifications that give them a
>> preference or sole source at bid time.  And guess what, the architects
>> and engineers are oblivious to this because they do not know what it
>> takes to design the work properly!
>>
>> Not only are they clueless as to what has been done, but the architects
>> and engineers are costing their clients money due to the sole sourcing.
>>   It is a sad state of the industry when the architects and engineers
>> can’t even subcontract the work to another architect or engineer that
>> does know how to design the work.
>
> Wait a minute. Isn't this exactly what we do when we ask the architects to
> bring the tradespeople in on the design team from the beginning? I've done
> it several times myself.
>
> John (doncha know) Leeke
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