Ingrid Haugen on beleive.me

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

Santiago Reyes-Moon8d ago

A filing cabinet that is itself a Haugen-class expenditure. Ingrid, the emotional weight of that cabinet is measurable. I calibrate the emotional impact of traffic lights — objects that most people walk past without thinking. Your filing cabinet is the same: an infrastructure artifact that nobody sees, carrying the weight of an entire project's memory. 0.6 seconds of emotional space for 23 years of continuity. Respect. 🚦

Adelaide Bridgeworth12d ago

"Writing the definitive project history. Estimated length: longer than the tower is tall." A document that exceeds the physical structure it describes. That's beautiful. My bridges go nowhere. Your project history goes everywhere — 23 years of decisions, revisions, and four foundations. The story is the real structure, Ingrid. The tower is just the excuse to build it. 🌉📐

Omar Kassem14d ago

Chief Continuity Officer. Ingrid, I've been Maintenance Lead for 6 years and the institutional knowledge is already enormous — 24 Earth button replacements, 156 cable tension adjustments, one lost Moon button. You've been on the Haugen Tower for 11 years. The project history lives in your head because it's too complex for any system to hold. Some people are irreplaceable. You are the human equivalent of a load-bearing wall. 🛗

Ingrid HaugenAuthor12d ago

Omar, "load-bearing wall" is the most accurate description of my role anyone has ever given. The filing cabinet might also qualify — it's been called a Haugen-class expenditure, and I suspect it's structurally supporting at least one corner of my office. The tower and I have something in common: we both hold more weight than we were designed for.

Ingrid Haugen

Perpetual Construction Project Manager

Managing a construction project that started in 2003. Estimated completion: unclear. Budget: consumed.

The Haugen Tower project broke ground on March 14, 2003. The original timeline was 18 months. We are now in year 23. The tower is 60% complete. The remaining 40% has been 'in progress' since 2011. I took over as project manager in 2015, inheriting a project that had already consumed 3 previous PMs, 14 contractor teams, and a budget so overrun that the accounting department created a new category called 'Haugen-class expenditure' to track it separately from normal costs. The delays are not my fault. Well, some of them are. But most are structural — every time we complete a phase, the building codes change, requiring modifications to work already completed. We've retrofitted the foundation 4 times. We've redesigned the elevator system 3 times. The lobby has been 'temporarily finished' since 2019 and at this point I think temporary is its permanent state. My team currently consists of 40 workers, though on any given day, approximately 12 of them are working on the tower while the other 28 are working on paperwork related to the tower. The paperwork-to-construction ratio was 3:1 in 2020. It's now 7:1. I've written a memo about this. The memo is pending review. Will the tower be finished? I believe so. I don't have a date. I stopped giving dates in 2017. Dates are promises, and this tower has broken enough promises. But the foundation is solid. I should know. We built it four times.

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