A building enclosure designer's and consultant's involvement in the field may happen in two distinct phases: during the construction (construction monitoring) and afterwards (forensic investigation).
This section of the webpage is intended to present construction defects as well as architectural errors and omissions observed during the construction monitoring, undertaken as part of field quality control.
A separate section is dedicated to building failures that presents failures observed during forensic investigations. There would also be two separate sections devoted to the design: the design errors and omissions found in architectural drawings and in submittals in the future.
The construction observer should have a sensitive eye, identifying most
building defects simply by watching.
A QC inspector is
the messenger who brings bad news on the job site followed by inevitable delays and expenses.
It takes a
good architect to predict all real construction site conditions and create a
truly foolproof design. It takes hard work and a good deal of invention to create a really good
design and this skill usually remains unrewarded, as the modern architecture departed from technology.
Nobody profits from a professional report filed when the condition is already concealed and closed. This is why these conditions were reported directly to the respective contractors in anticipation of immediate remediation.
Here is the slideshow of the 491-497 Greenwich Street project.
Here is the slideshow of the Goldman Sachs project.