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Here's an example of that: when I built a house, we had the following characteristics:

1 A geotechnical exclusion zone at the front of the house whose exact location was unknown. 2 Three strange angles (one for solar access, two marking out the block size) making measurement tricky thus tricky locating the exclusion zone. 3 A brick house base and a steel frame to go on top. There was 5 centimetre tolerance for the location of the steel beams.

Get #1 wrong, and start building all over again. Get #3 wrong, and it's time to re-fabricate the frame.

Could have been costly. Went well but took a lot of care, attention and coordinating across 5 groups of contractors.

As a side note, one of my occasional hobbies is performing super-sketchy surveying methodology. It turned out that my extermely non professional, totally un-certifiable methodology was within 10cm of the actual exclusion zone (whose length is around 10 metres from the front of the block of land).



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