Spot on. It’s always round three when everyone finally accepts the CAD model didn't account for a 40mm out-of-plumb pier, and the foreman’s folded-plate trick becomes the official construction detail.

Spot on. By round three on structural steel, you’re usually just re-inventing the 12mm slotted hole the fabricator tried to give you in the very first submittal.

Redrew a GRC shadow gap three times for a project out in Al Ain, only for our site lead to show me how the wind-blown sand would choke it by next Tuesday. He was 100% right, as usual.

Three rounds feels almost fast for a desert mockup! Did his fix actually handle the thermal expansion better, or was it just about saving everyone from assembling it in that heat?

We went through six iterations of CAD drawings for a timber louver detail here in Yamaguchi, only for the lead carpenter to solve the whole shadow line with a single chalk mark on a scrap piece of cedar.

Three is definitely the golden number. That canopy turned out ridiculously clean though—especially the way those tension cable connection points ended up looking against the sand.