Leaning Tower Of Pisa Stabilized.

Read in the Paper recently that the Leaning tower of Pisa has finally been stabilized and should be out of danger for another three hundred years. Sadly I won’t be around to verify that or not, but one can only hope that they are right at last. After all, it would be a shame to see something built (in several stages) between 1174 and 1370, fall down because of faulty foundations, wouldn’t it? The recent major engineering work that actually began in 1990 and finished in 2001, seems to have worked as there as been no further movement since they moved it back 40cm then.

Of course this hasn’t been the first time that much money and effort has been spent to correct original shoddy work. So let us learn from this exercise of taking shortcuts on the foundation works of ever project that we do. Let us not take short cuts or reduce that foundational work, like the original builders did. Just think how much time and money has been spent on stabilizing the leaning tower since it first started to lean, and how that time and effort could have been put to other and possibly even better use, if the original foundations had a bit more time and money spent on them at the beginning, instead of later.

So, is there something that you are currently involved in that you are tempted to take short cuts with or skimp on the foundational work? If so, please listen to my plea and not only don’t take shortcuts, but put even more effort into the foundational work, so that what you build now, will stand forever and not bring shame to you or your descendants. Over to you for now.