For architects and engineers, there will always be challenges along the way when it comes to construction. Different issues like miscalculations, operational blunders, and permits, which can often be controlled and fixed by them.
But what about those that are aren’t? Like a lamp post that was erected right on the site of the building – more so part on the area of the building itself?
That is a dilemma that was faced by one architect in Belgium whose project is in the municipality of Keerbergen.
Even before construction, the lamp post was already an issue to him. It was brought up to the authorities two years ago, but according to the designer as reported by VRT NWS, they failed to contact energy company Eandis about the obstructive light.
But not wanting to have his project to be delayed, he made a creative solution: instruct his contractors to build around the post.
Photos via VRT NWS
In an interview with the Telegraph, the architect said, “We decided to act and start building around the lamp post because the contractor and client couldn’t wait any longer for the lamp post to be removed because it took so long for the company who is responsible for the management of the public lighting to set a date to move it to the opposite side of the street.
“As building around the lamp post inflicted no damage or any future harm for the construction we decided to go ahead.”
The architect said that even after the owner of the plot contacted the authorities over and over again, there was still no action coming from Eandis. And so they continued the construction by building around the lamp post but not touching it.
Many noticed how the company went around the problem and found the result funny. The architect agreed.
“Of course, I realize that it looks very funny and leads people to think we didn’t take into account the presence of the lamp post during the building process, but it is just the opposite: we didn’t want to create any delay.”
But after almost two years of struggling to work with the lamp post, the architect said that Eandis has finally removed the post in December 2017 and the contractor will close the front of the building.
Source: The Telegraph UK
