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Back to the drawing board: when building a new facility or renovating an old one, avoid these 10 design mistakes or risk regret.
In my work as an aquatics consultant, I cannot even count the number of times I've heard the owner or operator of a recently constructed aquatics facility start a sentence like this: "I wish ..."
"I wish we would have hired someone to review the plans."
"I wish we would have spotted those design errors."
"I wish we would have thought about everything more before we started building."
I usually hear these regrets uttered while doing a post-construction audit for an organization that is not happy with its new facility. Something is wrong. The punch list keeps growing. Architects, engineers, suppliers and various members of the design ...
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