Why isn’t this common practice anymore? Soil Borings are more and more questionable, spaced too far apart, or are completely lacking relevant information like blows, moisture contents, etc that are needed to make real educated decisions on dewatering and construction methods. Or in this case they Borings just didn’t make sense, why are two in a row the same and then multiple random ones in the middle are completely different, are there truly random differing pockets in an otherwise consistent area, or are the soils on edge and classified wrong in some or all of the tests?
As an industry that is out there running around bidding projects with millions of dollars worth of risk, with more of it being attempted to be shifted our way in specs. So why aren’t we out mitigating this risk?
So you can argue differing site conditions if the owner supplied Borings are wrong? How much production/ponential
Profit was lost before stopping work to start that process? Where’s your crew going to make the same daily profit while you work it out? Can you make the same margin and cover your real costs when it ends up becoming a change order and you’ve got to provide proof of costs? How does this delay effect the next job down the pipeline for this crew?
You’ll have a hard time convincing me that knowing what you were getting into and having it properly covered up front so that you can maximize your chances for success, properly cover the costs, and mitigate your risk isn’t worth spending a couple thousand dollars on up front when trying to chase after a large underground contracts worth millions or tens of millions of dollars.
And I don’t know about most, but there is no better way to know how hard something will be to dig, or how well soil may dewater than actually seeing the dirt with your eyes to judge how fine or coarse the material is, clay content, etc that is very subject to differing opinions in a soil boring classifications.
Rain may have slowed down our crews from digging today. But it didn’t keep us from doing some test drilling in Fort Wayne. This was in preparation for an upcoming bid so that we know what the real on site soil and ground water conditions are so that we can accurately price the work. #duniganbros #undergroundconstruction #betterdirtworld
Process, Quality and Continuous Improvement Manager at K&M Manufacturing
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