Expert opinions

An assessment of competence

An innocuous-sounding title for a very serious, often annoying, and not seldom also expensive issue: the opinion of many an expert. Of course, not every expert, getting in contact with our industry, lacks the needed technical knowledge, there is no doubt about. But, indeed, we have to worry about all the kind of absurd “stuff” experts have already provided.

What shall we think about an expert’s conclusion that 10 cm deep lane grooves in a paved delivery zone could have been avoided if instead of the chosen rectangular paving block of company X the interlocking paver X of company Z had been...

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