A long road

The last few months have been intense, but that’s not a problem. Sometimes you make mistakes and you roll with the punches. But last week we delivered the beach pavilion – a building that we decided to build for special reasons. and one where I did a few things wrong and incorrectly estimated. You could write an epic novel about this project, filled with everything that makes for a gripping read. The complexity of life, how people get along with each other and above all, how difficult it is to just get a process up and running – all these elements would provide sufficient material. My conclusion, in any case, is that everything that could go wrong did go wrong, and that I also contributed to some of those errors and spent a lot of time trying to both stop and correct them. To the point that I went to bed with them, dreamt of them, and woke up with them still on my mind.

My personal view is that I fixed a million details after the fact, when I should have solved them at the beginning. Our staff should have put everything into place to complete the project successfully. Even the client and everyone else involved have been put to the test. In the meantime, I know that everything always works out in the end, and it will also work out again. Paviljoen Noord is open and it was absolutely jam-packed on the first day.