Construction
Jun. 2, 2000
Start-up smarts
By John McCloud J. Edgar (Ned) Fennie, a partner in Fennie & Mehl Architects in San Francisco, describes what happened when a construction project supervisor told the staff of a young dot-com company the new conference room would not be ready for an afternoon meeting because the painters were lacquering the walls.
By John McCloud
J. Edgar (Ned) Fennie, a partner in Fennie & Mehl Architects in San Francisco, describes what happened when a construction project supervisor told the staff of a young dot-com company the new conference room would not be ready for an afternoon meeting because the painters were lacquering the walls.
"They asked him, well, can't you just put more men on the job," he relates. "He had to explain that the lacquer would still take 12 hours to dry no mat...
J. Edgar (Ned) Fennie, a partner in Fennie & Mehl Architects in San Francisco, describes what happened when a construction project supervisor told the staff of a young dot-com company the new conference room would not be ready for an afternoon meeting because the painters were lacquering the walls.
"They asked him, well, can't you just put more men on the job," he relates. "He had to explain that the lacquer would still take 12 hours to dry no mat...
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