Excel, email, and SharePoint are not a lab workflow
Friday afternoon. Someone on the project asks a question that should be simple: Which test result is final? Nobody points to one screen and answers it. Someone opens SharePoint and finds final_v3 — and final_v3_revised. Someone else pulls conditions from an email thread that may not match the PDF in the folder. The schedule lives in Excel, edited yesterday […]
Who Set the Test Conditions — and Who Approved Them?
A laboratory test can be executed perfectly and still create a problem for the project. Why? Because the test may have been run under the wrong conditions. Geotechnical laboratory test conditions can be critical. Confining pressure, consolidation stress, loading direction, drainage conditions, stress path, cyclic loading parameters and other requirements can directly affect whether the […]