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The time a foreman in Seattle showed me I was wasting paper on my markup sheets
Back around 2015 I was working on a big commercial build in Seattle, a new office tower near the waterfront. This old foreman, must have been drafting since the 80s, walked over and saw me using a fresh sheet of bond paper for every single markup revision. He laughed and told me I was going through reams like a kid with a printer. Then he showed me his trick: he uses the back of old plotter prints for rough markups and only pulls out new paper for the final or near-final versions. At first I thought it was cheap, but after a month I saw my own paper stack shrink by half. The real change though was how it made me think twice before printing anything at all. That habit has stuck with me through three jobs since then. Has anyone else picked up a weird cost-saving tip on a job site that just made sense?
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