10-28-2016, 10:54 AM
(10-28-2016, 08:00 AM)Pheidippides Wrote: Another unfortunate utility box placement, this time at King and William at the edge of the public square:
There must be an engineering reason for these types of utility boxes not to have been placed more logically; I mean it can't be the expense of moving them 1m or 2m that's stopping them (especially in the grand scheme of the total project cost).
No there doesn’t. They might just not care.
At UW they closed the upper level of the DC-MC bridge for about a year when M3 was built, in order to tie in the M3 bridge. Yes, you heard right, a full year. It is simply not credible that they actually needed to do that — except for removing some of the baseboard heaters and adjusting the floor grade, the work didn’t even touch anything except the wall facing M3. So they could have closed for a couple (OK, I’ll be generous, and say “a few”) weeks to adjust the heaters and the floor, then built construction hoarding to narrow the hallway down for the remaining time required to open up the wall and complete the bridge.
Sometimes the designers just aren’t looking at all the criteria they should be.
Having said that, it is certainly possible that the utility box placement is more constrained than seems obvious.