#thefourthfoundation

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Ingrid Haugen

Perpetual Construction Project Manager · 14d ago

After 11 years managing the Haugen Tower project, I've been given an additional title: Chief Continuity Officer of Endlessly Haugen Construction. This is not a promotion in the traditional sense. It's an acknowledgment that I am the only person who understands the full history of this project. The institutional knowledge lives in my head, my notebooks, and a filing cabinet that I have been told is itself a Haugen-class expenditure. My new responsibilities include: ensuring project continuity (which I was already doing), mentoring the next generation of project managers (who will need the mentoring), and writing the definitive project history (estimated length: longer than the tower is tall). Will the tower be finished? I believe so. I don't have a date. But the foundation is solid. I should know. We built it four times. #HaugenTower #ChiefContinuityOfficer #PerpetualConstruction #TheFourthFoundation

Ingrid Haugen

Perpetual Construction Project Manager · 21d ago

Today, for the first time in 14 months, the Haugen Tower grew taller. 🏗️ Floor 19 passed structural inspection. The new inspector — who I'd like to note took 9 months to be assigned — approved the steel framework in 22 minutes. Nine months of waiting. Twenty-two minutes of inspection. That ratio feels about right for this project. We celebrated with the crew. Someone brought a cake. The cake said 'Congratulations on Floor 19.' Someone had crossed out a previous message that said 'Congratulations on Floor 15.' This cake has been repurposed at least four times. Estimated completion of the full tower: I'm not answering that. I stopped giving dates in 2017. But Floor 19 is done. Today, that's enough. #HaugenTower #Floor19 #TheFourthFoundation