There's no assumptions, I'd love to say outright where this information came from but without wanting to sound dramatic, its sensitive and I value my job!Questions and quotes like this really get on my tits. Asking questions and making assumptions on information based solely on hear say.
My company walked away from the project due to timescales being unrealistic. Out of sequence working and lack of time leading to corners being cut and poor workmanship!I can understand incompetence. We’ve all worked with idiots. But how were the wrong materials even available in the first place? And was there no supervision of any sort? It’s layer upon layer of idiots.
If I were working on a rival club's new stadium, I would still do the best job I possibly could. Professional pride would make sure I do. On the other hand, my Spurs instincts would tell me I shouldn't even be anywhere such a project.
A lot of decent electricians I know left the job or refused to go because of working conditions and general incompetence from management. So a lot of the guys left are the ones who can’t get jobs elsewhere
Got something to say Davidmatzdorf?
One of the issues with a project of this scale was always going to be the amount of skilled labour available especially as it seems the tactic was to flood the place with workers to meet some might say an unrealistic timescale.
The construction industry has been going to the dogs for years. I’ve sat on trades courses run by colleges and saw for myself that you only really needed to attend for a certain amount of time before you were issued with a certificate and a pair of safety boots and away you go. Looking at some of the adverts for labouring jobs at the stadium all that was being asked for was a CSCS card which if anyone has ever had to obtain one of those it’s pretty clear that it qualifies you for having a basic level of common sense and nothing more. Unfortunately it would appear that a lot of the labourers were probably given jobs far beyond their capabilities and this is the end result.
Most of these guys were probably used to working on a traditional 2 up, 2 down house but all of a sudden were tasked with building a sports stadium which I think we’d all agree is a completely different kettle of fish.
Long and short of it is that there was never the required amount of skilled labour available to complete the job of this magnitude especially when you consider all the other big construction projects happening at the same time, cross rail etc.
One of the issues with a project of this scale was always going to be the amount of skilled labour available especially as it seems the tactic was to flood the place with workers to meet some might say an unrealistic timescale.
The construction industry has been going to the dogs for years. I’ve sat on trades courses run by colleges and saw for myself that you only really needed to attend for a certain amount of time before you were issued with a certificate and a pair of safety boots and away you go. Looking at some of the adverts for labouring jobs at the stadium all that was being asked for was a CSCS card which if anyone has ever had to obtain one of those it’s pretty clear that it qualifies you for having a basic level of common sense and nothing more. Unfortunately it would appear that a lot of the labourers were probably given jobs far beyond their capabilities and this is the end result.
Most of these guys were probably used to working on a traditional 2 up, 2 down house but all of a sudden were tasked with building a sports stadium which I think we’d all agree is a completely different kettle of fish.
Long and short of it is that there was never the required amount of skilled labour available to complete the job of this magnitude especially when you consider all the other big construction projects happening at the same time, cross rail etc.
My company walked away from the project due to timescales being unrealistic. Out of sequence working and lack of time leading to corners being cut and poor workmanship!
We should have joined some sort of international trade body, a group of nations, that enabled us to bring in skilled labour from other countries!
A very sensible well measured post, I think you should be banned
This was the skilled labour fro other countries?.. 90% of the sparks on site where Romanian /BulgarianWe should have joined some sort of international trade body, a group of nations, that enabled us to bring in skilled labour from other countries!
Me too?.. ?Nnoooooo I’ve already been banned from certain sections of this site, please not this one aswell ?
I've sent you a DM, for me to say exactly who I work for and how I know would be rather unprofessional, and I quite like my jobSo if your company walked away from the project then why would they/you have any kind of inside track about what's going on now?