Does the kitchen shaft still work?
An owner-architect-contractor meeting. A prospective restaurant tenant intends to install a solid-fuel smoker, and the question is whether the existing kitchen shaft can carry the additional exhaust.
Progress is blocked by a dependency outside the session. A Parked task MUST name the blocker and the party responsible for clearing it.
- Owner's representative
- Coordination.
Coordination - MEP engineer
- Ready.
acknowledge - Architect
- Heard — one moment.
heard - (the architect finishes the sentence she was mid-way through)
- Architect
- Ready.
acknowledge - Owner's representative
- The restaurant tenant is adding a solid-fuel smoker. Does our kitchen shaft still work?
- MEP engineer
- Heard — check whether a dedicated solid-fuel exhaust fits the existing chase alongside the hood exhaust and the kitchen supply and return. MEP, on it.
claim - MEP engineer
- Prompting now: compare a dedicated solid-fuel exhaust route against the current shaft using the duct layout on the kitchen level, and flag where it would have to dogleg.
prompting - Contractor
- Adder.
adder - MEP engineer
- Go ahead.
go_ahead - Contractor
- The smoker is a twelve by twelve unit with its own flue.
- Architect
- Adder.
adder - MEP engineer
- Go ahead.
go_ahead - Architect
- And the ceiling below the kitchen is already tight.
- MEP engineer
- Finished. Running.
finished - (the meeting continues through other agenda items)
- MEP engineer
- Back with it. Preliminary: the shaft works if the smoker sits to the right of the supply duct. Anywhere to the left and the chase has to widen. This needs my review against the equipment cut sheet before anyone builds to it.
preliminary - MEP engineer
- Parked — waiting on the tenant's smoker model and its listing. Owner's representative owns getting that from the tenant.
parked
The task did not end Accepted, because the input needed to answer it does not exist yet. It ended Parked with a named blocker and a named responsible party — the difference between a tracked open item and one that quietly evaporates. Most rooms would have ended this exchange with "we'll look into the smoker", which names nobody. Note also the architect's two-step acknowledgement: she was mid-sentence, said so, and the caller waited. Without "Heard" her only options were to claim a readiness she did not have or to stay silent and be read as inattentive.