August 20, 2009

Inside Third & Bond: Week 97

This week the Hudson bloggers introduce you to their contractors...Our hardworking team from Kiska paused in between the conclusion of our weekly meeting and the inspection of the hardwood flooring delivery, to take a group photo. As discussed in Week 20, Kiska is a multinational company; we are working with the local residential real estate subsidiary. You can see examples of their stellar work all over the city. From left to right in this photo: Erdan Arkan (President), Ulgur Aydin (Vice President), Ekrem Oz (a Kiska subcontractor: Ozela), Aysun Kahyaoglu (Project Manager – Model Units), Alper Kaya (Superintendent), Hakan Turkmenoglu (Project Manager), Yigit Unlu (Project Architect).

Don’t let their sweet smiles fool you – these guys are tough negotiators! If only we could somehow capture the energy exerted during one of our “discussions” about who pays for a change order, then we could probably get rid of the ConEd temporary connection and power the job through the steam that comes out of everybody’s ears.

Meetings tend to be lively, productive, and, dare we say it, fun...

If we were to characterize each person by their favored on-going debate, it would go something like this:
Ulgur “Your Engineer Undersizes Everything” Aydin
Alper “But the Sprinkler Plan Says to Put the Head Right There” Kaya
Hakan “In My Opinion _____ (fill in blank with whatever you don’t want to hear)__” Turkmenoglu
Yigit “The Neighbor Did It” Unlu
Ekrem “Can I Join You?” Oz
Aysun “I’m Too Nice To Tell You the Schedule is Crazy” Kahyaoglu
Erdan “When Do You Lose the Bet and Take Me to Peter Luger’s?” Arkan

And to be fair, they’d probably have a few quips for us, like “People Who Want the Moon and Then Some” or possibly something less savory…

Happily, both Kiska and Hudson has the same ultimate goal: get the project done, beautifully and under budget. That and a good sense of humor takes us a long, long way.

Inside Third & Bond: Weeks 1-96 [Brownstoner]
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