Someone, somewhere, at some time must have been told that there was no rush in getting a research project whether a pilot plant or laboratory renovation or construction complete. Sadly, I was never one of these lucky individuals. It always seems that almost any research project is under significant pressure to finish sooner than later. And this invariably leads to a desire to get started on doing something as soon as possible to make some progress.
On many projects, there is a strong tendency to start doing something – anything – before the design work is complete. This approach, in my opinion and experience, is strongly counterproductive but also unfortunately counterintuitive. Starting any work, in most circumstances, before the design work is essentially complete only ensures that you will incur extra costs, needless rework, potential safety issues, and not finish any sooner if not later. Pretty strong words. But backed up by my experience.
Richard P Palluzi LLC 