When the design is wrong

You know, sometimes we quote projects and having too much knowledge and knowing my business sometimes could be dangerous. And dangerous when I say that I won't do a job if it's unethical, if it's not designed properly, if there's a fault that would be my liability.

So I had one project that knowingly, I told the general contractor design-build group that was doing this building, that the building height would not work with a clear span, that they needed to tie an intermediate girt into this freezer wall system that he had designed a four-inch wall at a height of like 34 feet. So with the temperature being ambient on one side and freezer on the other, you get into some things that aren't on the chart on your typical L over 180 load chart.

And as a consequence of that, at the last minute, he told me, well, you figure the steel, put the steel girt in. And I said, I'm not an iron worker. So they didn't do it. But at the end they had to drop that whole wall assembly down. They didn't put the girt in. The owner paid for a 34-foot-high freezer building and ended up losing so many pallet positions in that freezer because they had a design flaw. We won't do a job if we can't sell it properly. Our name is on it.