Re:The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track
by masklinn on Friday December 29, 2017 @05:19AM
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> American inefficiency has been a joke in Germany as far as I can think back.
'course now there's BER so the joke is a bit harder to make.
For people not familiar with that particular flustercuck: BER is the new Berlin Brandenburg airport.
After a lot (more than 15 years!) of planning they began building in 2006.
By 2011 October, it was ready or so they thought. In 2011 November they actually ran trials with some 12 000 people.
8 May 2012 it was announced due to the failure of the fire protection system the opening is postponed. In a 2016 audit, they concluded the airport was at less than 60% readiness in reality at 2012 May.
Right now the opening is perhaps late 2020 or even 2021...
We are getting to the point where the 2016 audit should've concluded it is better to tear it down and build a new one.
Also, a recurring theme in what I hear about American customers from people working in manufacturing is that US companies insist on providing extremely detailed specs and strict tolerances but then run into issues because their own (presumably US sourced) parts don't actually match the same specs.