Believe me, jwalker, first and foremost, I and the TVHD are looking at every angle possible to make sure the current OSHPD-approved modular design will work, if at all possible.  The way I look at it, the community has come too far and made too much of an investment on the current initiative and design to just give it up without a real hard effort to make it work, especially after OSHPD has approved it.  I didn't come onboard this past November to help push the plan approval through just to turn around and dump it.  As a professional engineer, I'm just looking down the road at every contingency in case the design proves to be unbuildable, unaffordable or just too risky to continue with without some adjustment.  I think you and the rest of the community would want us to do that rather than just blindly wade into the construction phase and then realize too late that we have a major design or construction problem, or that the modular construction technique just won't pass state inspection.  Remember this design and novel modular construction approach hasn't been tried in California in many, many years and not since the tougher earthquake standards came into force in the early 2001 period.  Modular companies have gone out of business or just refused to try building a hospital in the last few years because of the really tough state standards.  We are the first "prototype" plan to try this all-modular approach for a completely new facility from the ground up in some time.  I just don't want to be negligent and get halfway into the construction and have a work stoppage that we could have headed off in advance.  Maybe by introducing some conventional construction into the whole process would reduce cost and risk, at least that is my contingency if things start to fall apart.  The fact is the modular construction has had problems recently and cost much more than predicted.  Do you want to just go down that road blindly without planning for other options and maybe then just end up "with a hole in the ground" and a construction project plaqued with big problems we can't overcome?  I don't, so I'm looking at every possible way to make this design work AS APPROVED!!  I think the community would expect that of the TVHD instead of wasting time and money to then end up with a facility that can't be finished.  The last ditch effort if ALL ELSE fails is to redesign with a conventional construction method but that most likely means going back for OSHPD re-approval which we don't want to do if at all possible!!