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SRI has "Got Us Covered"
03 July 2008, 04:22 PM Filed in: interest
One of
the best things about our work is that we get to work
with some terrific people. Southern Reprographics
handles our big
printing jobs. They do our presentation boards,
construction drawings, and any other random thing
we ask them to do. They're about as fine a bunch
of folks as you'll ever meet.
One of the worst things about our work is that we occasionally have to produce building specifications. Architecture is a wonderful profession that balances artistic expression with the pragmatics of problem-solving. If you put architecture in a centrifuge and spin out all of the passion, vision, and inspiration, you'd be left with the dry pulpy residue that is building specifications. We do specifications for one reason. We have to do them. Otherwise, I'd rather save the trees by saving the paper.
Now, here's how it all fits together. We just completed a spec that is about 300 pages long. It was torture, of course. I checked it and rechecked it for consistency. I was very impatient with the task and very relieved that it was over. I emailed the files to Southern Reprographics to print. I gave them specific instructions and waited for them to call to say they were ready for me to pick up. Instead I got a call from Deanna. She said that they had caught an error in my Table of Contents. The section numbers on a few sections were inconsistent with the actual section numbers. Not only did they catch my error, they offered to fix it for me. It was only changing a few numbers in the index, but what fantastic service! It would have been perfectly okay for them to have just printed the files without even looking at them. I wouldn't have ever expected them to catch my mistake. Wow!
So, to our friends at SRI, Jacob, Deanna, Derrick, Lisa, Ginger, Debbie, Mason, Ferris, and everyone else, thanks guys! You are always a pleasure to work with. You make us look good!
Bret
One of the worst things about our work is that we occasionally have to produce building specifications. Architecture is a wonderful profession that balances artistic expression with the pragmatics of problem-solving. If you put architecture in a centrifuge and spin out all of the passion, vision, and inspiration, you'd be left with the dry pulpy residue that is building specifications. We do specifications for one reason. We have to do them. Otherwise, I'd rather save the trees by saving the paper.
Now, here's how it all fits together. We just completed a spec that is about 300 pages long. It was torture, of course. I checked it and rechecked it for consistency. I was very impatient with the task and very relieved that it was over. I emailed the files to Southern Reprographics to print. I gave them specific instructions and waited for them to call to say they were ready for me to pick up. Instead I got a call from Deanna. She said that they had caught an error in my Table of Contents. The section numbers on a few sections were inconsistent with the actual section numbers. Not only did they catch my error, they offered to fix it for me. It was only changing a few numbers in the index, but what fantastic service! It would have been perfectly okay for them to have just printed the files without even looking at them. I wouldn't have ever expected them to catch my mistake. Wow!
So, to our friends at SRI, Jacob, Deanna, Derrick, Lisa, Ginger, Debbie, Mason, Ferris, and everyone else, thanks guys! You are always a pleasure to work with. You make us look good!
Bret
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