New building code

[Drew]

Peter Cresswell, Architect, blogger and Libertarian spokesman for a bunch of stuff. You should really go read his posts on leaky buildings.

Architect ya say? FUCK HIM then, hope the cunt has to take a pay cut because he doesn't have top level qualifications.

Architects are NOT tradesmen either.

Any architects out there who think I'm being unreasonably biased against them, can also get fucked. Steriotypes are what they are, for the reason of majority usually, and the steriotype that architects are morons is well deserved.

[Drew]

Reading DBH & BRANZ propaganda I'm not impressed by 1 statement if I'm reading it right...

At present, the scheme is competency-based, but from 2015, it is intended to be qualification-based

That appears to be going the wrong way. "at current it's skill based, in future they will have read a book" is the way I'm reading it, I hope I'm wrong cause I'll take real skill over book skill any day of the week.

Oh fuck, now I'm straight up agreeing with you.

Look at modern mechanics. They leave tech "qualified". Piss off, I used to get around with a guy who I wouldn't let change my spark plugs for fear of later having the head off to helicoil or worse. But he knew how to plug in a diagnostic machine, then totally balls up the injector pump on a diesel because of how he interpreted what it told him. How can a course tutor let someone like that loose on a car? Scaling up exam results would probably be half the reason.

[Swoop]

Architects are NOT tradesmen either.

Any architects out there who think I'm being unreasonably biased against them, can also get fucked.

A mate of mine says "the only thing that stays inside an architect's head for more than an hour, is a cold".

He has the qualifications to competently say that!

[Drew]

He has the qualifications to competently say that!

Umm, this thread kinda flies in the face of qualifications. However, your friend is clearly an enlightened individual. Feel free to buy him a beer in my absence.

[SPman]

A mate of mine says "the only thing that stays inside an architect's head for more than an hour, is a cold".

As a qualified/experienced Chippy, Building Surveyor and Quantity Surveyor, I'd tend to agree with that in many cases........

[flyingcrocodile46]

As a qualified/experienced Chippy, Building Surveyor and Quantity Surveyor, I'd tend to agree with that in many cases........

That's pretty harsh. I have known some that can hold a tune in their heads for days on end......... Dumb de do, dumb me do, dumb me do...