Wheels “Reinvented in the United Kingdom”
As if to confirm the United Kingdom’s inability to learn from its own experiences, the BAA (previously the British Airports Authority) did a market test to compare building costs in another country where labor and material costs were similar to those in Britain (BAA, 1993). U.S. contractors were asked to tender for an office block identical to a development already underway at Heathrow for British Airways. Built to U.S. designs and specifications, the American building came out 32% cheaper, thanks to the U.S. architects and engineers spending less time “reinventing” wheels.
Over in farming, the nonlearning problem is also endemic. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), eggs, chickens, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...
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