I don’t dispute that the porta potty needs to be the right distance away. Not so far as to cause PPUs to not make it there in time, yet not so close as to have others hearing (and smelling) all what you’re doing in there. It also can’t interfere with the comings and goings of materials and supplies or otherwise cause a problem in the work flow or normal plant operations. And I’m sure it needs to be placed properly on a secure surface. But it’s not rocket surgery.
The question can and should be resolved with a 5 minute conversation between the contractor and the project manager. The theme here seems to be micromanagement. The larger and more bureaucratic an organization, the less it trusts the boots on the ground to make decisions on their own. Why bother paying my husband, who has 45 years of engineering and construction management experience, the big bucks for his talent, if they’re going to treat him like a kindergartner who can’t tie his own shoes by himself?
Agreed. I ran an airshow for 3 years. I had 6 chairmen in charge of various areas. They had people beneath them. And I still got called about where I want the porta potties, how we can get power to the food vendors, where the snow fences should go up, etc.
No one likes making decisions, so they delegate upwards. Companies have now gotten used to centralizing power, because decentralized power is scary for people.
Your husband is the victim of decades of this upwards delegation; companies are simply not used to people being bold enough as to have a strong opinion for where a fucking porta potty should be.