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Re:Consultants, The real reason it costs so much to build ne... by xxpor on Monday February 27, 2023 @12:20PM (#34959143)
>Tunneling and underground work is a uniquely localized specialty. A national organization that runs underground work is going to still need specialized knowledge for each region both because of local ground conditions and local contracting practices. It is very difficult to export know-how from one area to another. Site sampling/testing practices are not even consistent across regions.

Read the report the article is about. Milan fills this role for the rest of Italy and somehow figures it out just fine.

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Re:Consultants, The real reason it costs so much to build ne... by abduhl on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:07PM (#34959805)
Italy is 3/4 the size of California.

Does Milan run all of the EU’s jobs too?

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Re:Consultants, The real reason it costs so much to build ne... by xxpor on Monday February 27, 2023 @04:11PM (#34961917)
Irrelevant to the point. If the south of Italy is different geologically, the size of Italy vs anything else doesn't matter.
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Re:Consultants, The real reason it costs so much to build ne... by abduhl on Monday February 27, 2023 @07:38PM (#34964206)
You think geology is the only thing that determines "local ground conditions and local contracting practices"? FYI: in the underground industry, "ground conditions" isn't a synonym for "type of dirt" and "contracting practices" isn't a synonym for "geology."
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Re:Consultants, The real reason it costs so much to build ne... by abduhl on Monday February 27, 2023 @08:13PM (#34964429)
Local contracting practices are only tangentially related to geology. They are very closely related to geography - hence the word "local."
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Re:Consultants, The real reason it costs so much to build ne... by xxpor on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:54PM (#34965786)
The whole point is this stuff isn't contracted out.
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Re:Consultants, The real reason it costs so much to build ne... by abduhl on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @04:34PM (#34988662)
Local contracting practices is about the CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, not the consultants. You know, the general contractors and subcontractors.
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