You Know What Grinds My Gears....

 

Taking a segment out of Peter Griffon off Family guy, but you know what really grinds my gears? Developers. Not just any developer, but the selfish, greedy, Idiotic kind. The ones that are in charge of this “Improvement” project next to Lee to be more specific. It truly baffles my mind when I read the project brief and then see what Is going on before me.

The first and blatant thing is who the f thought it was a good idea to rip out all the trees and vegetation to make a better retention system? It is so well known that the uprooting of those deeply embedded trees will only cause the soil to loosen and eventually dry out due to the lack of natural support. Just the other day in those heavy storms, the water was not draining how it ever has before in that area and completely ruined the little landscape that was left unplowed. I simply cannot look at this atrocity to nature happening with the justification that it is an “improvement” project. There just no way that logically makes sese. We all know whatever their solution is that they went forward with, is only going to solve a handful of issues but open a hoard of new ones.

The second thing that baffles me about this project, is how they did not discuss beforehand a building literally right next-door that’s full of literal experts in the fields of landscape and design or even try to utilize that opportunity to keep the resources and exposure in house. I understand getting a professional, but you can try to hide the fact that you went with the cheapest, fastest solution. Shame on you Clemson facilities.

The big take away from all of this though must be on the way that the American Construction industry happens. They clean slate a lush dense population of vegetation, just to they can control all of the conditions on a blank canvas. If you ask me, it shows that they are either too greedy to sacrifice the budget, too stupid to figure out a way to minimize the number of trees that need to be knocked down, or they are just too lazy to try to do anything different. As an observer in the field, it just makes me sad. I think this idea of leaving a smaller footprint when we begin our buildings, I think is an easy task to be able to achieve and a push I will be passionate about in the future.