improved with adding more code and detail, more reviews and overviews,
and more centralized power.
More, in this case, has a good chance of making things worse.
We need some social science intervention. Industrial psychology. Studies
and conclusion on how to improve designs and construction. Office
managers, code publishing businesses, company owners can not do this.
This reminds me of the 80's Nuclear Industry when there seem to be a
direction correlation between added design rules, checks and balances
that resulted in an increase in design problems. It was clear the design
environment was changing from the goal of getting safety right to how
will the changing code and reviews might trip up the design and
construction progress.
Again and recently I have watched this in the building code designs.
We are now facing one super code, one standard makes all wrong or right.
We are not facing one qualifying exam source. We need to make sure this
approach will not make things worse but better. Our industry needs third
party counseling, the social scientists.
This one-ness reminds me of the old Russia I visited miles of medium
rise buildings in East Berlin being junked having the exact same
designs. One mistake, no buffer, everything had the mistake. I am sure
there are plenty of examples of this statistical problem.
I hear that the nuclear industry now has standardized the new plant
design being all the same. I heard they used the car industry
standardization as a proof that standardizing works. I don't like it
comparing a million car results to 100 plants. I neither know if it is
good or bad but It sure seems like assumptions are being made wrongly.
David Merrick, SE
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