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Won a bid on small municipal well. Contract was typical in that Engineer was not wrong. Fixtures specd were no longer available and had not been for several years. After many alternates and drawings were passed through the chain of command one was finally accepted. I had wasted enough time on that so I ignored another obvious in the plans. No control was specified and I just figured someone else was responsible. Turned out to be a nice extra. Two years later I bid another almost identical project from same engineer. Control was now included in the specs but the same fixture was still included. Most people only change when it cost them money or pain.
 
ptonsparky said:
Fixtures specd were no longer available and had not been for several years. After many alternates and drawings were passed through the chain of command one was finally accepted. I had wasted enough time on that so I ignored another obvious in the plans.
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Why didn't you just RFI the error and let the engineer spend the time picking another fixture?
 
I feel your pain. Sorry to hear about the rough road. For the record, we are not all that way :)

I make my engineers give me cut sheets on the fixtures for each project that I check and sign, so I can verify that the fixture is available (or at least still in the catalog) and that they have the catalog number as correct as possible.
 
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