"Michael Mckelvy" wrote in message
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"Sockpuppet Yustabe" wrote in message
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Tell mw why private inspectors would be more resisitant
to bribes than public inspectors.

Because he would be an employee being supervised by the people paying him,
who are more likely to keep a sharp eye on him.

Gimme a break!!
If private industry were so ethical and responsible as that, we wouldn't
need inspectors at all. Thje workers doing the job are also employees being
supervised by the people paying them.

When you have a governemtn
agency involved people tend to think that all they need to be assured. If
you are having something built and it's your money on the line, you want
to
make sure the people you pay are giving you your money's worth.
It's not "fool" proof, I grat you. Turning it over to government is less
perfect. Private Inspectors would have more to lose.


Corrupt public employee inspectors have lost their jobs, their
retirements, and have gone to jail.

Where I work, we contract with engineering firms for inspectors. The
construction manager, an engineer, is also private, but under a
different
arrangement, as a contract employee. The overall supervision is from a
government agency.

And you have to wait for their schedule and sometiimes follow rules that
are
overkill.


Not at all!

In my area (not engineering), I contract with consultants to do most of
the
actual
work, and I manage the consultants and the projects (not engineeriing)

As to your assertion about bribery, it is just as likely a private
inspecor
would take a bribe, as it is likely a public one would do the same.

I doubt it since they would be paid better the government agents.

As far as government projects, it is ultimatley the government's
responsibility to be sure thery are properly built.

Civil service jobs being the most highly qualified and tightly controlled?
No cost overruns?


We have extremely well qualified engineers in our organization. However,
they
really are mmore project managers than nuts and bolt design engineers.
We actually leave that to our priovate consultanats, and rely on their
seals on the plans. We tend to find a number of mistakes when we got to
construction. We don't do technical reviews, because we are not allocated
enough staff.


Cost overruns are actually a political problem. I prepare estimates for my
functions,
after I turn them in, they are lowered, to make them more palatable to the
public.
Then, whe the project moves forward, and costs come in near my original
estimate,
we have an overrun. Also, public projects are susceptible to mission creep,
politcos and
directors lke to addon features as we build it. Then there are always the
unforeseen
problems, such as unexpected soil conditions, or a previously unknown
underground water flow. we do test pits, but only every several hundred feet
or so.





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