Re: Exit Signs and Other Ugly Things
From: Sharon Villines (sharonsharonvillines.com)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:54:50 -0800 (PST)
On 11 Mar 2012, at 12:44 AM, Kay Wilson Fisk wrote:

> We wish our otherwise wonderful architects had taken these requirements into
> account because we were too naïve to have foreseen them.

I agree. We found, unfortunately that the systems people seem to have come in 
later after the architects were finished and applied their pipes, etc. on top 
of what was previously designed. The sprinkler pipes, huge ones, in the 
basement block the HVAC unit rather strangely. You have to reach around them. 
Two sewage ejector pumps were installed in basements that people had planned to 
use as living space.

In the attic we discovered that the electricians had strung wires over the 
flexible air ducts and then pulled them tight, closing off the air ducts. The 
air duct people knew their ducts worked with they left. The electrical wires 
worked when the electricians left. But later…...

Designing living spaces, particularly multiunit spaces is very complicated with 
layers and layers of just plain stuff to be put somewhere.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines, Washington DC
"Nothing exists without order. Nothing comes into existence without chaos." 
Albert Einstein


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