The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Twelve Months, chapter one
Mira:
--- Quote ---I knew the designs would be bad aesthetically before I saw the first one. I never considered that the architects didn't know what materials to use.
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They know what materials they should use, but using them depends on the short term. Short term as in what is the cheapest and the quickest to get. Usually very little thought is given to the cheapest and quickest now costing more later and taking more time because it will have to be done all over again at a later date. Sadly politics do enter into it as well, that gets very complicated and ugly.
Nooneofconsequence:
Wouldnt the easiest thing be to explain and prove why certain actions were taken? Which is to say under duress, at another's direction. Making the one who commanded the action responsible, and the other just a tool? You don't punish the hammer.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on January 05, 2026, 01:21:31 PM ---They know what materials they should use, but using them depends on the short term. Short term as in what is the cheapest and the quickest to get. Usually very little thought is given to the cheapest and quickest now costing more later and taking more time because it will have to be done all over again at a later date. Sadly politics do enter into it as well, that gets very complicated and ugly.
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There's also the well-intentioned "we'll put up the building NOW, with the materials we can get NOW, because otherwise folks will be unsheltered this winter."
Limited availability of "preferred" materials -- and limited budgets -- are all-too-real things that can force unwelcome choices.
Bad Alias:
If I recall correctly, it was a bunch of famous architects who had never built anything in a climate like New Orleans. They just didn't know what they were doing.
Mira:
--- Quote from: g33k on January 06, 2026, 07:16:38 PM ---There's also the well-intentioned "we'll put up the building NOW, with the materials we can get NOW, because otherwise folks will be unsheltered this winter."
Limited availability of "preferred" materials -- and limited budgets -- are all-too-real things that can force unwelcome choices.
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Oh I get that, if you'll remember connected with that disaster was the FEMA trailer fiasco. They built all those trailers for temporary housing, but when they went to use them they found out that, I believe, the insulation was toxic and they couldn't be used. There is short term, and long term planning.. Both have to be taken into consideration, and rarely are.
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