This picture is so telling regarding the state of affairs between contractors and Universal. How long has this tower stood half baked and unpainted now?
As an added note... I asked a friend in the biz the other day why would Valley Crest be doing rockwork painting? He agreed as VC doesn't have a themed painting division. Well, as it turns out, VC is sub contracting with themed rockwork specialist companies from around central fl to pick up the slack of details that either Nassal cannot or will not do any longer. So, the guy in the VC t-shirt doing that spray painting is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
This picture is so telling regarding the state of affairs between contractors and Universal. How long has this tower stood half baked and unpainted now?
As an added note... I asked a friend in the biz the other day why would Valley Crest be doing rockwork painting? He agreed as VC doesn't have a themed painting division. Well, as it turns out, VC is sub contracting with themed rockwork specialist companies from around central fl to pick up the slack of details that either Nassal cannot or will not do any longer. So, the guy in the VC t-shirt doing that spray painting is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
So what exactly is the deal with UOC and Nassal? Did UOC just want to make some last minute changes and Nassal said forget it we are done? Why wouldn't they want to continue working especially in this job market. Makes no sense to me at all.
Word has it that Nassal began losing money on this project some time ago. I would imagine Nassal sets it's goals to finish areas up and then slowly begin laying off the mega crews they had hired for the project. So now, if WB or Uni come back and say "we want this just a little more perfect" or "we've changed our mind that snow is too low" etc. Nassal is standing there going, "we have this and this and "that tower" to finish up and just enough crew with which to do it". We don't have the crew to go back to these other areas and we aren't hiring back the crews that we have laid off because we cannot afford to. Some of this is conjecture on my part but I hope you can see the logic in it.
Well true, but correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't a contracter give himself some leeway just in case changes were to come about? I mean a project of this magnitude and the amount of approvals it needs before going public it should be known that changes would be coming.
I didn't realise that I wasn't allowed to express my opinions, and particularly didn't realise that doing so meant that I thought I had some sort of authority here. As someone who hasn't posted here before (I believe), too many boards and threads), thanks for the warm welcome. I didn't realise outsiders weren't wanted.
I was wondering the same thing.What? Did I miss something here?
I didn't realise that I wasn't allowed to express my opinions, and particularly didn't realise that doing so meant that I thought I had some sort of authority here. As someone who hasn't posted here before (I believe), too many boards and threads), thanks for the warm welcome. I didn't realise outsiders weren't wanted.
Well, I remember reading that UO does have a reputation in the business of being someone who takes advantage of their contracters and suppossedly I think you said a couple have gone under because of them. Am I wrong?
I think that it is more a case of Universal allowing or accepting the lowest bids. The contractors and sub-contractors are also at fault at times for not building in the leeway that you spoke of earlier. They are so desperate to get the job in their resume that they bid with no leeway at all. An example that I spoke of before is that Disney imagineers were completely baffled how Universal was able to pull of the Mummy ride for under 45 million. I was told this by a Disney Imagineer who was a financial project manager on the EE project. This is a complete rumor, but I was told that the mummies that pop-up in the big room were supposed to do a whole lot more than just pop-up yet the contractor for that went belly up trying to complete these. Another company was brought in, the additional movement that the mummies were to have was abandoned and thus they just pop-up. If anyone knows more about this rumor, please correct me.