01 — The drawings
The documents didn't carry the intent
The shop drawings we were issued did not reflect the aesthetic the design actually called for. There are two places to discover that: in your own shop, or in a finished building in another country.
We found it in the shop. It still meant re-fabrication — building parts a second time to hit an intent the documents had not captured.
On a six-month schedule with an ocean in the middle of it, that is not a small correction. It is the kind of thing that either gets absorbed by the fabricator or becomes everybody's problem three months later, on a dock, in Haiti.
