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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2021 17:37:33 GMT
Culvert collapsed? You'd think they'd do periodic surveys of such things. What you need is a firm specialising in no dig trenchless rehabilitation technology….. 😙
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2021 18:01:53 GMT
Cant they xray the ground these days?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2021 18:04:04 GMT
There are some technologies that can do this like ground penetrating radar but one of the known issues is that awful celebrities such as Tony Robinson tend to get their faces in front of the interesting stuff!
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Post by Jim on Oct 13, 2021 5:32:10 GMT
Culvert collapsed? You'd think they'd do periodic surveys of such things. What you need is a firm specialising in no dig trenchless rehabilitation technology….. 😙 MY culvert is fine thanks😉
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2021 7:23:24 GMT
What you need is a firm specialising in no dig trenchless rehabilitation technology….. 😙 MY culvert is fine thanks😉 As C&RT and its customers are finding out many miles of culverts and pipelines are not - forward thinking firms proactively prevent infrastructure failure by using the least costly and invasive solution, something that has kept bread on the table in our house for 20 years
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Post by Jim on Oct 13, 2021 7:42:53 GMT
MY culvert is fine thanks😉 As C&RT and its customers are finding out many miles of culverts and pipelines are not - forward thinking firms proactively prevent infrastructure failure by using the least costly and invasive solution, something that has kept bread on the table in our house for 20 years I didn't realise you were a mole, thought @a was the only one.
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Post by JohnV on Oct 13, 2021 7:49:07 GMT
with the A&C breach (culvert again) an early suggestion by a few was "just fill the bloody thing in to stop the leak and mole a new modern culvert a short way away to replace the faulty one" It would have been a damned sight cheaper and wouldn't have taken over 8 months to complete !!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2021 8:21:29 GMT
As C&RT and its customers are finding out many miles of culverts and pipelines are not - forward thinking firms proactively prevent infrastructure failure by using the least costly and invasive solution, something that has kept bread on the table in our house for 20 years I didn't realise you were a mole, thought @a was the only one.
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Post by JohnV on Oct 13, 2021 8:39:13 GMT
Major problems with large organisations, especially ones whose upper echelons are completely lacking in the background expertise needed in the industry they are contolling (There always seems to be a preponderance of money/marketing/promotional people that get to the top) is that their ridgid thinking and concentration on short term targets prevents them from looking outside the box.
A look at CRT management would illustrate this. Advancement through the organisation seems limited and so called "expertise" is brought in at the top
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Post by Jim on Oct 13, 2021 10:32:21 GMT
I didn't realise you were a mole, thought @a was the only one. Interesting. The railway near our house is shutting for a week while they put a new culvert through the embankment, joining 2 halves of a new flood tank in the valley bottom below our house. I wonder if that's what they will be doing? It would certainly be less disruptive than a cut and fill trench through.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2021 12:56:12 GMT
I suspect the CRT are only too well aware that many parts of the system are are ready to fail. A triage system system has evolved: there is a pot labelled winter stoppage budget, another labelled ongoing maintenance, and one labelled crisis management. Rigorous survey procedures would flag up even more potential failures, so to some extent, breaches and failures are always going to be an indicator mechanism. I don't envy the senior civil engineering management, the right man for the job would inevitably fail his job interview, being considered to have a very negative approach. The man who gets the job then finds he has insufficient available funds, so spends much of his time on cost cutting rather than forward planning. Perhaps the CRT are using the "creative accounting" approach to reporting failures, the figures being adjusted to suit end of year reporting. Marketing's a piece of piss.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2021 13:10:17 GMT
Major problems with large organisations, especially ones whose upper echelons are completely lacking in the background expertise needed in the industry they are contolling (There always seems to be a preponderance of money/marketing/promotional people that get to the top) is that their ridgid thinking and concentration on short term targets prevents them from looking outside the box. A look at CRT management would illustrate this. Advancement through the organisation seems limited and so called "expertise" is brought in at the top I'm sure this is largely true. The money is spent on daft signage and internet presence. Hire a consultant when the shit hits the fan. I knew someone who worked at Network Rail for a bit. At the time and shortly after the old guard had been paid off with fat pensions, it was realised that the current staff lacked the expertise to deal with the actual rail infrastructure so quite a few of the retirees were dragged back as consultants for three times the money previously paid in salary.
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