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One BIG Disadvantage in the Chinese Building Costa Rica’s New Stadium
In case you missed it in today’s news.. I nearly choked to death laughing…
The article refers to the fire detection system in the new stadium but – wait for it – “it’s all in Chinese (Mandarin) and it’s not easy to identify” where the fire started…
“El sistema de detección permite identificar un incendio incipiente y controlarlo antes de que se haga más grande. Sí lo tiene (el Estadio), pero está todo en chino (mandarín, no es fácil identificar en qué parte ocurre”, manifestó .
[ http://www.nacion.com/2012-08-07/Deportes/nacional-incumple–requisitos-de-bomberos.aspx ]
I don’t see it that way…
The Chinese built the stadium so I would assume that much of the work was done by working class Chinese who A: Were paid less than you and I want to imagine and who B: Never thought for a second that it was ‘odd’ that some of the features were in Chinese..
When you buy a home, if you’re smart, you typically have an inspection done and have it checked out before you complete the transaction, right?
Of course Costa Rica didn’t buy this stadium, it was a gift and as such surely the officials that accepted the stadium when it was completed should have found this error and made some adjustments so that Spanish speaking people would understand and lastly….
How did INS the Costa Rica state insurance organization issue insurance on a brand new stadium when the fire detection systems could not be understood by Spanish speaking people?
Not all gifts are perfect when they arrive…
Scott
[quote=”Scott”]I don’t see it that way…
The Chinese built the stadium so I would assume that much of the work was done by working class Chinese who A: Were paid less than you and I want to imagine and who B: Never thought for a second that it was ‘odd’ that some of the features were in Chinese..
When you buy a home, if you’re smart, you typically have an inspection done and have it checked out before you complete the transaction, right?
Of course Costa Rica didn’t buy this stadium, it was a gift and as such surely the officials that accepted the stadium when it was completed should have found this error and made some adjustments so that Spanish speaking people would understand and lastly….
How did INS the Costa Rica state insurance organization issue insurance on a brand new stadium when the fire detection systems could not be understood by Spanish speaking people?
Not all gifts are perfect when they arrive…
Scott
[/quote]Sounds like lemons into lemonade for a few Chinese residents in CR.
I would think, even if it was a gift, that construction, design and details, would have to go by costarican construction law, and costarican engineers would be supervising at any stage of the process. The Chinese even had to sigh up with CCSS which they did not like at all, but there they had to go by the local laws and rules.
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