Chapter 335 The neglected living area of ??migrant workers
“China’s engineering technology is no worse than any other country.
The Great Hall of the People covers an area of 150,000 square meters.
And the nearest Three Gorges Dam!
So the technology is inferior?" Chinese experts were unconvinced and stood up and retorted loudly.
"Sir, I never said that China is not good at engineering technology, I was talking about management!
Your country’s technology leads the world, but in terms of construction site management, your country lags far behind the international level!” Holford shook his head and said with disdain.
Holford's words are annoying, but he is indeed telling the truth.
Yu Qingyang sat on the rostrum and did not stop their argument.
It would be better if we let these domestic experts take a hit, so that they don't take it seriously.
From yesterday's contact, Yu Qingyang discovered that many of these domestic experts disagree with the refined management of construction sites proposed by Yu Qingyang.
Especially the experts sent by the Department of Water Resources were not impressed by this seminar on refined construction site management, and even felt that Yu Qingyang was really trying to steal the limelight.
The reason why he came here was to get subsidies.
There is good food and drink here, accommodation in five-star hotels, and subsidies. Many of them regard it as a vacation.
Although Holford's words were annoying, they also had a catfish effect.
Through Holford's belittling, these experts can be stimulated to be competitive.
None of the experts invited here are under the age of fifty. Experts of this age are still very patriotic.
In fact, these Chinese experts can't argue about anything.
It's purely self-esteem. They can complain about domestic engineering matters, but they will never allow foreigners to say that Chinese engineering is not good.
On the contrary, the more you argue, the harder you will be hit.
Seeing the Chinese expert's face being beaten so hard, Yu Qingyang felt uncomfortable.
I had to interrupt their argument, "Okay! I don't think there is anything to argue about this issue! Everyone's emphasis is different!"
Mr. Ford, in fact, the reason why your country's construction site management is advanced is because your country's trade union system is perfect! The relevant laws and regulations are sound! This is nothing to show off.
China is still a developing country. There are many laws and regulations that need to be further improved, and there are many things that we need to learn from you. This is a fact. We have nothing to feel inferior to!
I invited you here just to improve this aspect!
Seniors, there is no need for you to argue!
We are indeed inferior to others!
It doesn’t matter if you are not as good as others!
We can fight hard to catch up.
I invite everyone to come here because I hope everyone will work together to help Huayu Investment develop a set of practical and feasible standards for refined management of construction sites.
We at Huayu Investment are willing to be the pioneer of national engineering management reform.
A experimental field for engineering management reform.
Provide practical data support for the next step in the country's formulation of relevant laws and regulations."
"Xiao Yu, you Hua Yu are great!
If the enterprises in our country can be like your Hua Yu, why worry about the country not being able to become rich and strong!
Why do we engineering people need to be angry with foreign devils!" An old expert in his sixties stood up and loudly applauded Yu Qingyang.
The expert called him Xiao Yu, but Yu Qingyang could only listen.
This person is of the same generation as Uncle Yu Qingyang, and is considered a family friend of Yu Qingyang's family. He is the retired chief engineer of the Dongshan Provincial Water Resources Department.
I heard that Hua Yu was engaged in meticulous management of this construction site, so he took the initiative to come over and use his remaining energy.
"Yes! Mr. Yu, what you said just now is so good! We must have such feelings during the National Day!
We water conservancy workers must have the spirit of daring to be the first in the world!" Another retired veteran cadre stood up to applaud Yu Qingyang.
Half of the experts sent by Director Su to Yu Qingyang were retired veteran cadres.
Before retiring, he was the chief engineer of various units.
Don't tell me, each of these chief engineers is truly talented and learned.
All their youth was dedicated to water conservancy.
"Thank you, Mr. Wen and Mr. Bu, for your compliment! We Hua Yu just did something trivial!" Yu Qingyang bowed slightly to the two old men, and then said: "In the morning, let's discuss casually! Let's go to the construction site in the afternoon!
We in Huayu currently have four construction sites under construction!
I plan to use these four construction sites as a model to formulate standards for refined management of construction sites."
"This is good! With the construction site under construction as a blueprint, we can also have a reference when formulating!" The experts in the audience agreed.
"Haha! Xiao Yu, are you asking us old guys to find fault with you?"
"Haha! Mr. Wen, you just let everyone find faults! While we are finding faults, we will work out reasonable management standards. We can also follow the prescription and take medicine!" Yu Qingyang said with a smile.
After Yu Qingyang spoke, Holford stopped expressing his opinions to belittle the backwardness of China's engineering management.
After all, Yu Qingyang is the boss, and the salary paid to him is several times higher than what he pays in China.
Moreover, they have clearly admitted that we are not as good as you in management, and we invited you here just to learn from you. What else can we say?
The opening ceremony was at nine o'clock. Yu Qingyang gave a long talk, and they argued for a long time. Then Yu Qingyang interrupted, and the discussion continued. Soon it was time for lunch.
After lunch at the Sofitel and a short rest, Yu Qingyang arranged for a bus to take these experts and set off to the construction site.
The big bar car stopped at the compound invested by Hua Yu.
Yu Chuanwu, who had been notified early, led people in the office to give everyone safety helmets.
Apart from notifying Yu Chuanwu to prepare a helmet, Yu Qingyang did not notify the construction site to make preparations. What he wanted was a real site.
He is not afraid of being found fault with, but he is afraid of not being able to find fault.
Spend so much money for what?
Isn’t it just to improve the management model of the construction site?
Yu Qingyang took the experts to Huayu Century City.
In terms of engineering, construction engineering is the most representative project.
Relevant laws and regulations formulated by the state are also implemented from construction projects.
Yu Qingyang has long been prepared to be picked on and even slapped in the face.
But who knew that the slap in the face would come so quickly.
Bypassing the excavated foundation pit, we came to the office area of the construction site.
On the way from the company compound, Yu Qingyang almost stepped on landmines several times.
Needless to say, these are all the work of those workers.
Everyone carefully bypassed the mines and arrived at the on-site office area.
The office area and living area are connected together.
There are rows of prefabricated houses, which cannot be said to be chaotic.
The key is that it's too dirty.
Not far from the office is a toilet covered with asbestos tiles.
Sewage is flowing outside the restaurant, and a large amount of domestic garbage is piled up next to the pool.
"Let's go, let's go see where the workers live first!" Yu Qingyang took a deep breath and said to everyone.
Opening the door of a workers' dormitory casually, Yu Qingyang was almost emitted by the stench inside.
In the small room, there were more than twenty bed boards placed side by side on the floor, with workers' bedding scattered on them.
"Oh! God! This is a place where people live? Such an environment is so bad! It's so inhumane! If this were in our country, we would be sued by the union guys!
Such a construction site will be immediately shut down!" Holford shouted loudly.
"I think it's okay? It's good to have a wooden house to live in and electric lights! We lived in tents that leaked from all directions!" said an expert, covering his nose.
"Yes! Now everyone can live in prefabricated houses! The conditions are much improved than before!
It is normal for the dormitories on the construction site to smell a little like foot odor!" Another Chinese expert said very understandingly.
"Actually, the conditions for construction projects are already good! Most of the water conservancy projects are still sleeping in tents!"
"No! No! This kind of construction site dormitory is not acceptable! It is not in line with the spirit of humanity!
This is abuse of workers!
Construction site management should start with life management!" Holford said loudly.
"Mr. Yu, I also believe that refined management of construction sites should start with the management of living areas on the construction site!" Atwood Marcus began to support his colleagues from abroad.
"Mr. Yu, look, there are huge safety risks in this dormitory!
First of all, these wires are too messy and can easily cause fires.
Also, I found that they seemed to be cooking in the room.
This is also very easy to cause a fire.
Also, there are no windows for ventilation at the back of this board house, which can easily cause cross-infection of diseases!”
"Everyone, let's go out and discuss it! I think many senior experts can no longer stand the smell here!"
The smell in the room was so overpowering that it was really inhumane for everyone to hold their noses and discuss it in the room.
“Everyone, I very much agree with what Mr. Ford and Mr. Marcus said!
To be honest, this is my first time coming to this construction site! I didn’t expect the workers’ living conditions to be so poor!
Just now some senior experts put forward different opinions.
I think the construction site should be like this!
I would like to say that times are developing and progressing.
Our thinking must also continue to improve!
Workers leave their homes and careers to come to the construction site and work hard to earn money to support their families. It is not easy!
They can endure hardships and don't care how bad their living conditions are!
I just hope that I can take the money home at the end of the year.
However, you are all people who can influence decisions, and as a person who can make decisions, I have to consider them!
As Mr. Marcus said just now, this kind of dormitory is too dangerous, let alone difficult or not!
Once an electric mattress leaks electricity, or smoking causes a fire, more than twenty people will be crowded into a house of less than forty square meters, unable to escape." Yu Qingyang was the first to speak to support the opinions of Holford and Atwood Marcus.
He knows the actual situation of domestic construction sites very well.
Everyone in China is focusing on technology and quality.
They unconsciously ignore the office conditions and living conditions at the construction site.
Many people don't remember until an accident occurs that, oh, this is wrong.
We have been emphasizing electricity safety and fire prevention, so why do you still have accidents?
It emphasizes the safety of electricity use and the prevention of fires, but there is no set standard for how to use electricity safely and how to prevent fires.
On construction sites, there are hundreds or even thousands of cases of fires and gas poisoning caused by heating in winter every year.
However, around 2000, many accidents were not announced because consultation was not yet developed.
If a life-threatening accident occurs, you consider yourself unlucky and pay the money.
If the family members make a fuss, a conscientious boss will pay more and go to the competent authorities, and the most they can get is a fine.
After that, what should I do?
The workers themselves don't care, it seems like this is how a construction site should be.
Everyone is used to it.
Why did Yu Qingyang bring so many experts here?
Why should we find foreign experts? Because they know that they are fighting against the entire industry.
If he wants to set new standards in a place where everyone is accustomed to it, he cannot do it alone.
Of course, he can enforce it at his own construction site, and he is prepared to do so.
However, Yu Qingyang also understood that once he did this, he would be attacked by many people. He recruited these experts just to share the firepower.
At that time, Yu Qingyang can say that this is a refined management standard jointly formulated by domestic and foreign experts. It is not something I created by myself. Only with a strong attitude can it be implemented.
The experts who were almost fainted just now are able to regain their composure now.
With personal experience, I have more recognition for the words of Yu Qingyang and the two foreign experts.
"Improving the accommodation environment for workers is a good thing! But will it increase costs?"
"Mr. Song, in fact, it really doesn't increase the cost much! Let's take this room as an example!
Visually, this room is about thirty-six square meters!
If you want to improve your accommodation environment, you can actually spend very little money.
First, change the room into two doors and open two more windows at the back!
Then change the bed board into a bunk bed!
In this way, the entire room will be much more spacious! More people can stay there!
Then ask the electrician to install a multi-function socket at the head of each bed, so as to prevent workers from pulling the wires randomly." Yu Qingyang pointed to the room and said.
"Mr. Yu!" At this time, the project department manager squeezed in with the project department management staff.
Yu Qingyang brought a large group of people to the construction site, which naturally alerted the people in the project department.
"Who are you?"
"I am the project manager of the Huayu Century City Project Department of Huayu First Construction Group, and my name is Tao Dajun!" Tao Dajun quickly introduced himself.
"Oh! Manager Tao, I'll bring experts here to find out your faults!" Yu Qingyang said with a smile.
"Welcome, welcome all leaders, come to guide the work!" Tao Dajun said with a forced smile on his face, his heart full of uneasiness.
Those who work in engineering are most afraid of leaders finding faults.
But he didn't dare to say no.
I just hope that there are fewer faults to be found.
At the same time, I was also puzzled and found fault in my heart. Why did I come to the work shed? Shouldn't I be going to the scene?
After Yu Qingyang greeted Tao Dajun, he continued the topic, "There is also the problem of cooking in the dormitory, which is also easy to solve! Just build a canteen at the construction site! It can be completely mandatory and require all workers to eat in the canteen.
, they are strictly prohibited from cooking in the dormitory.
How much does it cost to build a canteen?
To put it bluntly, building a canteen on the construction site will not only not increase costs, but will actually generate profits!"