Vultures and Hyenas
To the Editor:
I read with some sense of foreboding
the letter from Edward K. Williams in
your February '95 issue ("Inspectors
Protecting Themselves?"). As an architect/
contractor/construction manager
for over 20 years, I have seen some pretty
horrendous construction practices by
contractors and developers trying to cut
corners and save money. In all of the
instances that I witnessed, the perpetrators
of the wrongdoing knew that there
was a proper, better, conventional way
of doing the job but that it would take
longer, use more material, and cost
more. The hair on the back of my neck
rises at the thought of this kind of "professional"
being responsible for certifying
his own building plans.
With seemingly