RE: A funny and annoying aspect of municipal projects in Da Nang
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This happens to us a lot back in the 90s. I guess every SE Asian countries are having the same kind of blow during their boom, where things started with crazy amount of enthusiasms and ended up with the following 30 over years of suffering.
I like how you proportionate the poop to sand ratio. It's like a giant cat litter box that doesn't get cleaned for years and the poop ratio keep piling up 🤣
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there are several private builds in this city and probably all over the world that do a bunch of work and then some sort of accounting crunch comes along and they have to walk away. The difference between that and a 100 meter sidewalk is pretty big though, that and the fact that the government doesn't play by the same accounting rules as the corporate world. I wonder why they would just park the materials and then never come back? I would imagine all the tiles were stolen and the sand is so cheap that nobody bothers to steal it.
Problem with sand is, it takes effort and money to run the next construction project. Stolen construction material can't be written into the book, so there's absolutely no "value" in claiming the construction fee.
The only thing that always get stolen, is always about copper wires and high voltage electric cables. These stuff can always resell to metal recycler, so it can be "recycled" the sales process very quickly
Why am I paying so much attention to these stuff? Whilst I'm working in the insurance company, most of the contractor claims are always theft loss of cables 🤣 before my time, it was copper tubes that uses as water passage. Since British standard steps in and changed the ISO the 80s, plastics tubes and concrete pipes has replaced all copper tubes. So, that's not a problem anymore. The only cable that cannot be avoided, is still the electricity power supply copper cables.