Thanks for the insight! In retrospect, it certainly has the feel of a project that was too expensive to fix, so we'll patch/deal with it if it comes up. It certainly happens - high quality is time consuming and expensive, and it's easy to forget how risks allow us to do more for less (with a chance of occasional death-ray).
That said, what is the likelihood the form will be held to pay out in some way for this (say, either in replacing the glass wall or installing retractable shade awnings across the neighborhood)?
Tone edit: I certainly don't mean the project looks poorly done. Just that a fix would have required such a substantial redesign as to be prohibitively expensive compared to just hoping for the best.
I like that phrase: "The developers said the phenomenon was caused by "the current elevation of the sun in the sky", and that as Britain heads into autumn the problem should disappear."
There is a WONTFIX implicit in there. Who cares if it becomes a death-ray a few days each year?
This shouldn't even be too expensive to patch. They just need to change the covering of the windows.
That said, what is the likelihood the form will be held to pay out in some way for this (say, either in replacing the glass wall or installing retractable shade awnings across the neighborhood)?
Tone edit: I certainly don't mean the project looks poorly done. Just that a fix would have required such a substantial redesign as to be prohibitively expensive compared to just hoping for the best.