It's so hot now. Potah.

Seconds after I take a bath I can feel my skin turning clammy from the humidity. And. I. just. hate. sticky. skin.

Karma for giving sticky skinned co-commuting passengers dagger looks when their clammy icky arms hit mine. I am now a member of the club. Gross.

We're pretty lucky to be working in an apartment that we converted by tearing down the partitions because we've actually got a shower at the office. When the heat gets unbearable, or after a site meeting, I pop into the shower and get some temporary relief. Temporary being the operative word. Sigh.
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I was quite pleased during our site inspection as the construction seems to be going well. Of course there are some mess-ups...like the glass being measured by the subcon without any allowances for the clips that hold them, and the building turning over a differently sized VAV (variable air volume unit) for the AC system, etc. etc.

But thats the nature of construction It is always a high-stress job. Since there are so many people, contractors, and suppliers involved things really go wrong no matter how much you try to iron things prior to implementation... and as the problems with this project are nothing major, then I am really quite happy with everything.

The client is doing a partial move-in next week. 3 weeks after construction started, with the lenten holidays in between (!) Good thing we've got one of our better contractors working on this job. I can't imagine what would have happened if the client was too barat and we had to work with our lower-priced (but slower and less pulido) contractor. Sakit sa ulo sigurado, and we would probably have to stay on site the whole time just to make sure the guys get the work done properly.

The rest of the office should be completed by the end of April.
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I guess it's normal to always want to get the most for your money. But in construction there is a point when you keep making tawad and slashing costs, where you actually start wasting your money na. I hate going beyond this commercially acceptable level, because the rectification and maintenance costs just gets heinous.

We had a large multinational client who did not want to spend for enough equipment to cool their office, despite our engineer's advice that the building would not be able to supply enough AC (the building owner did some creative "value engineering" which resulted in them removing every other Air Handling Unit and having 2 floors share the same AHU). I advised them to reuse chairs instead as these could be purchased in future. They should get the AC's immediately because it would be difficult and disruptive to integrate the units once the system was in place. Didn't take our advice.

They ended up (1) Buying another set of blinds, (2) Tinting their entire perimeter curtain wall(!), (3) and finally buying the additional units.

Siempre it was a bit of a headache for us because we had to dig up files that were already archived and refamiliarize ourself with the project and the issues again.

:S
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Shit I hate clients that make you ipit after you've done the work. IMO, delaying payment after the work is done is STEALING. If there was any speed to litigation here I would consider speaking with our lawyer, but with the length of time it would take to resolve things we really have to bite the bullet as much as we can tiyan it.

I'll try one more time tomorrow, then I've got to do something else na. Haaay!

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