As the main contractor on a development site in the city I have a lot of stress.
I am constantly meeting with various technicians, department heads and even investors. Everyone wants the same thing, a timeline for completion. Of course the investors are the main worry as they expect everything to be perfect by the projected deadline. We have had a few stumbling blocks along the way that threatened to push that deadline back, but, for the most part we have been able to overcome them. This latest one, however, will not be so easy to work out. The HVAC dealer used a design team that made some serious mistakes in their calculations. The components that were ordered took months to arrive and once they did they were all wrong. The area they should have been installed in was too small and we have been trying to find a way to expand it. We can either move a wall in the basement area, or we can reorder a new unit that will fit the space and still provide enough power to supply the building with quality heating and cooling. I have been working night and day trying to come up with the best solution for the problem and the HVAC dealer has too. They were very apologetic when they discovered the mistake and admitted that they had gone with a new design team that they probably should not have trusted with such a large undertaking. The bottom line now is just to get the problem fixed without costing the investors time or money. My reputation as a contractor is on the line for this one too and I can’t afford to let them down.