Architectural Wonders

We have this wonderful architect working as a consultant to the civic body for repair and renovation of the heritage hospital building. Fellow must be good, since the civic body pays him 10% of the entire project fee, which is in crores. This fellow did our labor ward. He put central air condioning system, as was asked. He also put four large exhaust fans in the same area. This was quite intriguing to me. So I asked his assistant (wonder boy does not speak to us himself directly). "Will the exhaust fans not increase electrical consumption?" "Not much. The motor is not very strong." "But the AC will keep going out through the open vents, and the consumption will increase because the cooling is lost and has to be restored." "The AC is quite strong. You will not be able to make out any rise in temperature." "Dust will keep coming in through the open vents, along with germs. The microbiology reports have come positive for pathogens even after washing and fogging with disinfectant three times." "Dust cannot come in. The exhaust fan will pull air out." "But why put the exhaust fans there at all? Do you leave the windows open at home when the air-conditioner is on." "um... no." Finally I convinced him to put shutters on the exhaust fan vents when it was not to be used. It was to be used only if the air-conditioning failed. Today I discovered another thing the wonder boy has done, or rather not done. He has not put any telephone line in the labor ward. It is all concealed wiring, and how he can put one there is beyond my imagination. "Why is there no telephone connection there?" the nurse of that ward asked his assistant. "It is the most important ward in this section. A lot of critical patients come here." "There is no line because it was not shown in the drawings." Drawings! The wonder boy makes drawings on Autocad. He had become furious when I had told him once that planning of our wards and OTs was not merely making drawings in Autocad. It needed planning based on the needs. So I was proved right after all. "You should make suggestions to us" the assistant said lamely. "I did. But your boss told me point blank that I should not communicate with him, and send all suggestions through the building and construction chief engineer. That fellow never responds to our letters. If the contractor makes 15 crore rupees, and the consultant 1.5 crore rupees, should they not be doing their work properly, instead of depending on my suggestions to correct every goof-up of their creation?" He had no answer to that question.