Problem with most outfits nowadays is the fact that accountants call the tune and not engineers. I learned very earlly on that when doing business cases for up coming projects it didn't matter how many good engineering reasons you put forward as to when and how it should be done, and to what standard. Unless you could prove to the bean counters it was going save money, avoid bad publicity and/or avoid being sued for injury and property damage, you had no chance of getting it approved. Gee, I wrote some fairy stories, should take it up and write fiction
Bill