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Between November 2025 and January 2026 — right in the middle of the worst stretch of design delays on this project — SHC held at least seven meetings with the architect, engineer, and/or CWAM. We know the meetings happened because they're on the calendar. But nobody recorded them, and nobody wrote down what was said afterward.

That's a problem. If Lowell Ross or Bryan Hunt said something important in one of those meetings — like "we know the plans don't fit" or "we'll have the revisions to you by X date" — there's currently no record of it.

Before arbitration, Caleb, Casey, and Lee each need to sit down and write out everything they can remember from those meetings — what was said, who said it, what was promised. Memory is better than nothing, and if it's written down now while it's still relatively fresh, it becomes a usable record. Any texts, notes, or ClickUp updates from right after those meetings could also help fill the gap.

In February 2026, CWAM's mechanical lead Mike called Carrier — the company that makes the HVAC equipment Bryan Hunt had specified — to ask whether the design would actually work. Carrier's answer was essentially: don't ask us, ask your engineer. That's the engineer's job to figure out.

Here's why that matters: Bryan Hunt is the licensed mechanical engineer on this project. His job is to design a system that works. When the company that makes the equipment won't even confirm that his design will function — and says that determination is his responsibility — it's a signal that the design wasn't clearly thought through. A third party with no stake in the dispute is effectively saying: the engineer needs to answer this, not us.

Duct shop drawings are the detailed fabrication instructions that tell a sheet metal shop exactly how to cut, bend, and assemble the ductwork for a building. Without them, the field crew is essentially guessing.

On March 2, Bryan Hunt said in writing: "producing duct shop drawings is not a service we provide." He told SHC to go find someone else to do it.

Here's why that's significant: the whole reason SHC hired Nelson Ross and Petrichor was to get a complete set of construction documents — documents that tell the trades exactly what to build. If the engineer won't produce the drawings needed to actually build what he designed, the design isn't complete.

By March 2026, Bryan had now refused: the 12-to-32-inch duct transition detail, duct shop drawings, and was about to refuse a gas isometric. Each refusal was one more thing the field couldn't do without engineering support — and one more delay.

On March 20, 2026, SHC's electrician — a separate company called American Electrician — told Caleb in writing: I cannot order the electrical equipment until Bryan Hunt signs off on the submittals. Bryan had been sitting on those submittals for 7 days without responding.

This isn't a paperwork delay. Equipment has lead times. If you can't order it on March 20, it doesn't show up on March 21 — it shows up weeks later, and everything that depends on it gets pushed back too. The electrician couldn't do his job because the engineer wouldn't sign a piece of paper.

What makes it worse: Caleb had to call Lowell Ross — the architect — to try to get Bryan Hunt to respond. The engineer wasn't answering SHC directly, so SHC had to go through the architect to reach him. That's not how a responsive design team operates, and it directly contradicts Lowell's Nov 14, 2024 written promise to answer all RFIs promptly.

Bryan Hunt wrote in an email today that the plans "are schematic." In plain terms, schematic means a rough sketch or concept drawing — not a finished set of construction documents.

Here's why that matters: SHC paid Nelson Ross and Petrichor to produce plans good enough to pull permits and build from. That's the whole point. If the plans were always "just schematic," then Petrichor is now admitting in writing that they never actually delivered what they were paid for.

Every time CWAM hit a problem in the field — wrong duct sizes, wrong condenser placement, missing details — the answer from Bryan was essentially "figure it out yourself, our plans are schematic." But schematic plans can't pass inspections. That's why this project has had 5+ plan revisions, multiple inspection failures, and is still not done.

Think of it this way: if you hired an architect to design your house and they handed you a napkin sketch and said "it's schematic, you figure out the rest" — that's not what you paid for. That's what Bryan is now saying Petrichor delivered.