Recently, I've had the opportunity to get done the interiors of an office space. It is very different from the usual purely digital stuff I've done. Particularly, what strikes me is how much time, energy, coordination and planning is spent on moving men and material.
The small washroom in the office is an frame built out of aluminium pipes lined with WPC and cement boards. Getting it from shop to wall fixture is an intense process and the costliest bottleneck is the size of the elevator.
Just finding the right shops to source from is a big hassle - 10+ phone calls atleast. It turns out cement boards are available in a different shop than the rest of the material. So someone loads the cement boards on to a cycle rickshaw and takes them to the other location. Here it's loaded on to a small tempo truck but the driver isn't available. So the delivery gets delayed till morning. The driver reaches the site but can't unload because the construction worker isn't available. Turns out his brother had an accident so he dispatches a replacement 2 hrs late. In the meantime, the driver is getting late so he unloads the stuff in the parking lot (breaking a board). The worker individually carries the boards and pipes to the elevator. BUTTT the 12 ft pipes and 8 ft board don't fit. Yes, I measured and tried fitting them diagonally in the cuboid too. So they have to be individually carried up 9 stories into the office space before the work can begin. BUTT even before that a large-ish pile of broke bricks from the previous attempt have to be moved to make space for the new material. *phew
We skipped the lift this time but just using the lift itself is such an detailed process.
- First bring bags of sand from truck to lift
- Call the lift and block the door
- Load all the bags into the lift travel up
- Block the door and move bags outside the lift
- Carry bags into the office space
All this moving men and material hidden away by a nicely decorated wall and a clean washroom.