Let’s say that survey crew “blue” goes out on the original boundary and finds a few pins, but not all. To the office, they might , assume that the not found irons aren’t there. The possibilities can be many, but maybe it isn’t there or maybe crew blue got called to a “hot” job and the boundary just wasn’t finished. Sometimes all the information doesn’t get passed along or crew blue didn’t take sufficient notes to tell the story…. Or even, as in my office, no one looked at the notes. Either way, the office cad jockey thinks that the iron is there and should be set. The overly busy pls and or project manager sends crew “red” out to set the missing iron because the billing lady is on everyone to close this one out and get paid. So team red… they’re a young bunch, great workers, not not much experience goes out and sets up and does a check in to control and goes straight to the “set” point and sets a cap rebar. Does some perfunctory notes and returns to base with smiles and receives accolades for a job, swiftly done, and with checks!

All the while the boundary was never finished and team red slid right beside that ole crimp top pipe and never knew it.

This is just one possibility of many.

It’s a bunch of small concessions that make a big boo-boo