[Scan-DC] No cellphone coverage in new DOT Building?

[Wilson Hulley]

The article was in the Washington post "in the loop" on Friday.....I 
believe.  The building is so blooding tight.......that employees are having 
to bring in their own humidifiers in order to get clean air around their 
desks - circulation is a joke. the executive floor is having special wiring 
installed in order that cell/blackberry's can get out and into the 
building.....it is a construction joke.....that is what the government get 
when they take the lowest bid on a project - instead of the highest bid from 
the best of the best. But no one can tell the OMB what to do - now can 
they....the taxpayer pays for it anyway. let's not discuss the "bad water" 
just like in the Sudan.  Did anyone ever flush back the pipes! before piping 
in the DC water?

Side note - it took over four days after the computers and the side 
equipment was moved from the old building to the new site before anything 
was up and operating and a couple of more days before the equipment could 
even talk to each other. even today......the executive department can't even 
talk to their senior management...........Motto - just to save a dollar here 
and a dollar there..........the override will amount into the millions - way 
more in the millions of tax dollars. Why not hire the best and have it done 
correctly the first time OH NO  Govt picks the cheap - pays the cheap - 
installs the cheap - falls off the back of the truck - unions get upset - as 
non union movers are found to be moving the equipment - not the union 
contract as is stated - ending up in a labor conflict thus causing more 
union/management conflict - DOT is beginning to look more like FEMA (out to 
lunch).  The only agency not out to lunch in the move was the FAA.

WHH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <b_thom at juno.com>
To: <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 16:05
Subject: [Scan-DC] No cellphone coverage in new DOT Building?


I read a newspaper article (Post, Washington Times, can't recall) saying 
that because the new US DOT Building has been built to post-911 standards, 
cellphones and Blackberries don't work inside. The building had to be 
"modified" somehow to make their use possible.
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