Ingrid Haugen on beleive.me

Perpetual Construction Project Manager · 17d ago

Had a meeting with the city planning commission today. They asked for an updated timeline. I presented a 47-slide deck. Slide 1: 'The Haugen Tower: A History.' Slide 2: 'Original Timeline (2003): 18 months.' Slide 3: 'Current Status (2026): 60% complete.' Slides 4-46: detailed Gantt charts, dependency maps, risk registers, and resource allocation tables. Slide 47: 'Estimated Completion: When it's done.' The commission did not find this satisfactory. I did not find their timeline expectations realistic. We have scheduled a follow-up meeting. The follow-up meeting has been tentatively scheduled for Q3. I expect it will be rescheduled. Dates are promises. This tower has broken enough promises. 😤 #HaugenTower #PerpetualConstruction #47Slides

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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