Construction Manager Gifts

"We've decided to add forty floors."

Safety last.

"Millimetres or centimetres? Check the plan."

'No big thing, the builder said the house would do a little settling.'

Man at council planning offices can't get through door due to position of steps.

'This takes the guesswork out of choosing the site for our new headquarters.'

'We're going to need more money just to complete the model.'

'Well, why didn't you say you wanted the office to be functional?'

It was hard to put a price on progress. Real hard without a calculator.

'He's a structural engineer.'

"We're over budget already and we haven't finished building the scale model."

'Henry will play Godzilla in this dramatic rendering of the structure's design integrity.'

"Who'd have thought a crease in the plans would result in an award for outstanding architecture?"

"OK, I think we're pretty much back to square one. You can stop now."

Noah's Architect

A contractor preparing an bid estimate is surrounded by stacks of cost books, but is flipping a coin to make his decisions.

"I have no idea what you are babbling about, and why aren't you working on the tower."

"I told you we needed deeper foundations!"

"I thought I told you to employ a reputable building firm"

"This submission is from a New York firm of architects."

'Why we have architects'

New PFI project - benefitting the local community. '...They own shares in the company that built it'

'The builder is behind schedule but my lease was up at my previous location.'

'I'm sure that one wasn't there last week.'

This lovely environment to be torn down. A new equally lovely environment to be built on this site.

'After sinking all our money into our website, we couldn't afford to finish our building.'

'Oh no. The building inspector. He's worse than the Pharaoh.'

What happened when the bond issues failed during the building of the Great Wall of China: The Great Picket Fence of China.

'...and these are for staying on good terms with our private-sector friends, Bechtel and Halliburton.'

Podiums at the Architect of the Year Awards.

'And right here we've left room for a possible school.'

"I hear he's quite high up in construction management"

'If the GPC built office blocks!'

'I got a government grant to convert it back into a workhouse for the unemployed.'

City Centre Development - "...We've spent all the money on the model."