Shoe-horns and architecture

[jhetley]

Took a break from the current project for a bike ride, adding meadow daisies to the flora list from Sunday. And a vulture circling around over the bog as I peddled through. At least he didn't seem particularly interested in _me_.

"Current project" is renovating the abandoned upper floors of some downtown buildings, turning them into apartments. Trick is going to be fitting in a couple of new stairways and fire corridors that come somewhere close to satisfying the current code requirements, in buildings that were built around 1880....

I think I have about 2/3 of the concept design worked out. But remember the rule -- that last ten percent of the project will eat up ninety percent of the time.

Comments

Re: slippage

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

I think the 80/20 rule still holds for ongoing processes; the joke I'd heard was specifically for building/creating/etc. for the first time. But, it might well have been based upon an extension of the 80/20 rule on the notion of "but things are getting worse".