The other day I spent an amazing thing. I'm going to tell. Engineer I
Caminos, Canales y Puertos, and of course, I took a few years old to study for a degree. And, man! a certificate is not anything, and Civil Engineer, Canales y Puertos more, because it takes work and effort that my parents are from poor family, six years, at best. And the books, and eating out. In short, an expense. And I finished the race.
And now after a few years since I have done some name, and I have my clients and my work and prestige. Yes, yes, prestige. The buck is one of Aluche as Engineer of Civil Engineering and Ports and signing some projects. No, not all, hopefully, just a few.
Anyway, I'm to the point. Five months ago I commissioned a project. Hurry, as is this. If you are in the profession already know how it goes. It was an acquaintance, Gutierrez, who met him in the ring. A few months ago I ordered a bridge. For me, a bridge, and in my city, it is a very important thing, one of my aspirations in life, one goal.
As I say, the commission came very quickly, broadly speaking it was a bridge over a national gateway to the city. A private initiative had made a new development, good plant two hundred homes in an area near the nucleus, almost urban, low price but with poor communication. Well, actually the price was as if the Cibeles, but in the seven kilometer. Man, it was not bad, it was pretty close. They had sold like hotcakes. The problem was that the floors had been given out only in the direction away from the city, to enter had to go to the km.12, enter the second ring road west and two kilometers to make a turn at a spaghetti junction of those brutal, modern, and do not know what the language was just asking the referee to end the game. In short, then had to backtrack two miles to the east and come back towards Madrid, which at that time was still seven miles. Pear.
Well, Gutierrez, who knows the votes of those two hundred families, had the good sense to offer the construction of a bridge, partly funded by the neighbors and the City. Sure, the neighbors had no buying power. Gutierrez pointed out that I knew of the bulls. I had used to tell, in between sets flag, which was Engineer of Roads, Channels and Ports, which had a company, an engineering company dedicated to infrastructure project, blah, blah, blah ...
The project would take a total amount of one million euros. A budget of less than he deserved and below the area that I knew I could and had to do in my city, next to my old neighborhood. The project was out with the price of a normal bridge. Not very cheap but not enough money to build the bridge to be construirise singular there. It was the right price and that's what I know Gutiérrez. He told me not I worry. The project had to leave and funding involving the neighbors was limited. Will sign the Project and Construction management and once started the work would certainly have a way to expand the budget. With these, I presented a project pretty tight to what I had thought it would be what these families deserve and I deserve. I have a reputation and I can not do anything. I have to do things of quality are important. I have to keep a site. I deserve it, my office and it deserves it must assume Madrid.
I had to put some items in the project at a lower price, yes, I kept my standards. And speak of that later. The bridge should be as we all deserve. There was not much time to present the project, we could not adequately evaluate the items and their prices and, as we had a cap, in fact we did was stick to the budget that could make the bridge. To understand, Gutierrez and I had no more than look at us and smiled imperceptibly. "I know that Gutierrez thinks like me. Once awarded, will the bridge I want "
present the project. All formal proposals had been restrained and had a budget similar to or slightly higher than ours. Successful bidders for a small difference. Sign that the bridge € 915,000 would be done.
The day we officially awarded the Project and Construction Management I went to lunch to celebrate with my friends and also invited Gutiérrez.
Five months later I am writing this. I'm not counting anymore because I can not believe yet. I tell you this from my office, having sent to hell transport to the new council. A Gutiérrez replaced him after the election.
is incredible. We month and a half trying to convince the new Councillor for the bridge that the city deserves and I, winner of the contest, I can do, should be an icon of Madrid. The quality that my office can give my prestige. A competition won by a much lower price than it should. There is no law. In the north, Pants have left a jumper in the same light and it will cost twice as much money. I can not even believe. I will not go to another meeting. I have retired. I sent a letter of resignation to the Councillor and do you know what you have done?. I was de-nun-do-ing, because it says I am committed to the council and the council with the company, by public tender. But good god! We all know how this works, I signed a giveaway price, yes, but everyone knows that you can modify, modify. And I have offered a spending increase of 23%! I can not believe. I request 53%, which less than a million and a half euros! to bridge where we want to do. I refuse to have my name appear on that bridge if done at that price.
See you in court! That will have believed!
All scenarios and characters are entirely invented. (live in the media). This is not to say that this does not look much like reality. I do not know.
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