A reporter interviewed an architectural designer and asked how to evaluate the design lifelong responsibility system, and the designer said emotionally: "I take hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, why should I be responsible for it for a lifetime?"
Mr. Zeng Qun, vice president of Tongji Institute, was interviewed
I still remember that on October 7, 14, an explosion occurred on the second floor of the reuse water plant of Inner Mongolia Dongyuan Technology Co., Ltd. in Wuda Industrial Park, Wuhai City, and the direct responsible person was the designer Zhang, when the designer carried out the design of the underground pipe network, according to the existing design conditions, the six overflow pipelines leading to the rainwater system in the process flow chart were changed to the sewage system in the pipeline layout diagram, but the potential safety hazards of changing the original process flow chart were not fully considered, and the accident finally occurred, and the designer was also punished by law。
Industrial zone
After the incident, the designers were all in danger, worried that they didn't know what would happen to their projects and what penalties they would receive.
But should all these responsibilities be borne by the designer?
Since the construction drawings of the Class A Design Institute promised to be exempted from review, the third-party submission of drawings has been cancelled. However, for many design companies, they have removed the shackles on their heads, and they don't have to worry about picking technical problems and drawing specifications at the drawing review center every time they submit construction drawings, so as to improve delivery efficiency and shorten the delivery time.
However, what followed was the lifelong responsibility system for design, which can also be said to be the lifelong accountability system for design, which made more than 17 million designers in China unable to sit still.
Drawing design
Cancel the review of construction drawings of the Grade A institute and let the designers bear more responsibility, so what about the company's leaders? What about the audit and proofreading? Not only the design responsibility of the designer, but also the responsibility of the leadership and the company's construction drawing review.
The designer's personal business ability is limited, and the professional division of labor is also different, so it is impossible to take into account all kinds of problems in the construction process. The requirements of each profession are also different, which requires the design company to review the construction drawings submitted by the designer and defend the technology, as far as possible to solve the problem internally, solve it in the early stage, and do not wait for the later stage to find the problem on the water and difficult to collect. Shifting responsibility down is definitely an injustice to designers.
According to the distribution ratio of the project commission, the designer often gets the least commission. Companies often take the vast majority of design fees in terms of operating costs, platform resources, shareholder dividends, etc. However, if there is a problem in the future, the main body of responsibility is the designer, not the company's leadership and review mechanism.
As employees, we can understand the company, after all, the company provides a platform for everyone to feed so many people, which will cost a lot of money, but it is more necessary for the company to consider the designers. Some netizens said that they should bear the corresponding responsibility according to the amount of project commission, which is also a good way.
The design is responsible for life, and the structural designer bears the brunt of the problem. This is not unreasonable, because this link is the easiest to hold accountable. The ugliness of the floor and the ugly points of the tree species are nothing, but the wall has fallen down and the house has collapsed, first of all, it is the problem of the structural designer. Here I feel sorry for the structural designers, their responsibility is indeed the greatest, but also the most prone to problems.
Structural design of bridges
It is true that the lifelong responsibility system for design is to allow designers to pay enough attention to the design when drawing and designing, treat the design results correctly, reduce the project error rate, and improve the delivery ability. In the project design stage, the designer's attention to the project determines the quality of construction drawing submission, which determines the number of problems in the later stage of the project...... All of this is true, but the responsibility should be proportional to the commission.
Design drawings
"Why should I be responsible for the drawings I draw for a lifetime", this may be the voice of more than 17 million designers in China! The implementation of the lifelong responsibility system for design is indeed not a good news for designers, but for the entire design industry to a certain extent, it plays a role in promoting, and it is also a responsible attitude towards the construction industry.
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