On: Consultants: the real reason it costs so much to b...

[xxpor]

>Tunneling and underground work is a uniquely localized specialty. A national organization that runs underground work is going to still need specialized knowledge for each region both because of local ground conditions and local contracting practices. It is very difficult to export know-how from one area to another. Site sampling/testing practices are not even consistent across regions.

Read the report the article is about. Milan fills this role for the rest of Italy and somehow figures it out just fine.

[abduhl → xxpor]

Italy is 3/4 the size of California.

Does Milan run all of the EU’s jobs too?

[xxpor → abduhl]

Irrelevant to the point. If the south of Italy is different geologically, the size of Italy vs anything else doesn't matter.

[abduhl → xxpor]

Local contracting practices are only tangentially related to geology. They are very closely related to geography - hence the word "local."

[xxpor → abduhl]

The whole point is this stuff isn't contracted out.

[abduhl → xxpor]

Local contracting practices is about the CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, not the consultants. You know, the general contractors and subcontractors.