I tweeted the other day that the name “consultant is just another word for incompetent.”
I was asked to set out a design on a plot of land from the (reputable) consultants design in CAD format, no problem said as long as the coordinates are Ordinance survey which they replied they were.
To cut a long story short, I did a survey of the land area and pasted it into their CAD drawing to ensure correct positioning (no station control) but my survey didn’t appear. Zoomed extents and saw a tiny dot on my screen some distance from the “design”
Not only was their scale wrong with their 25m grids measuring 25,000m their design located it in Gloucestershire somewhere, not Yorkshire! 80km long, 16km wide and not 80m by 16m.
I told the site agent he needs to demobilise his plant and head down the M5, oh how we laughed.