Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else
by chrisseaton on Monday November 02, 2020 @03:37PM
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> Yes, why wouldn't be there? Speaking strictly for Romania (from where I'm from)
Great specific question! Because Romania isn't a signatory to the Washington Accord, which is the mechanism by which these engineering degrees get recognised for chartership by other countries.
https://www.ieagreements.org/accords/washington/signatories/
It's a simple fact that chartered engineering societies don't accept many overseas degrees! It's very hard to get chartered from overseas unless you've been to a few very notable universities. Even being listed on the European Engineering Education Database isn't accepted.
https://www.engc.org.uk/glossary-faqs/frequently-asked-quest...
Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else
by arethuza on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:41PM
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But not everyone on a construction project needs to be a chartered engineer?
Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else
by chrisseaton on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:22PM
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The person I'm replying to specifically said 'engineers'.
Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else
by cr1895 on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:41PM
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Did they? The top level post is referring to "construction labor" and "qualified tunnel workers."
I think only you've brought up chartered engineers, which, obviously, not everyone involved in construction labor will be.
Yes, why wouldn't be there? Speaking strictly for Romania (from where I'm from) the Bucharest underground in the 1980s and almost all of the big hydro-dams projects (which also require extensive tunneling work) were carried with Romanian engineers only (we received the help of the Soviets in the early 1960s for the hydro works, though). And to be honest that question in itself is a little "orientalist", but I'll just pass over that part of the post.
> If there are then good for them, but I still don't get why qualified people would accept so little
Because wages are still pretty low in countries like Romania (and I guess in Poland and Bulgaria too, to give just a few examples), $30 per hour is more than enough. Plus the engineers themselves alone are no good, the project is based on the people who actually have to dig the stuff out, for them $30 per hour is double more than enough.