Video Board construction holes full of water?

[MSUbravesfan]

busting your balls. Everything was great until the time. The reason I said all4paws is she got me banned from the lake years ago with some of her math. No pun intended.</p>

 

[ShrubDog]

1. Water will be displaced by the concrete so it shouldn't matter. If it is an issue they can adjust the mix (admixtures) to compensate - there are concrete mixes that set underwater.
2. A typical trailer mounted dewatering/bypass vacuum pump will pump 2500 GPM max. at around 120-feet of head. From looking at that picture of the formed pile foundation it looks to be about a 12-foot diameter. At 40-feet deep the volume would be around 4525 cubic feet or 33,850 gallons if the "hole" was completely full. Therefore it would take less than 2-minutes to pump out the pile foundation.

If there is a hold up it is more likely that the engineer didn't account for groundwater infiltration and/or rainfall inflow and there is not a pay item in the bid for dewatering operations. That would mean a change order, which could take some time depending on how much of a pissing match the client and the engineer get into (i.e. who will pay for it).

Of course I am only going on what I read in this thread so I probably have a 0.01% chance of being correct.

Change order....you got that right.

I also an wondering about the erosion control measures on site, i.e. the dirt they dug out of the hole. Was it still on site? That **** would have spread all over the place.

 

[DovaDawg]

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Good Stuff

 

[cowbell9]

..1st you ***** about not having the board. then, we get it and you ***** about the installation. Damn girls!

 

[ShrubDog]

Its called analysing others construction practices. I find it very informative. As a designer you can learn allot from others mistakes or accomplishments.
And some fellas on here have provide good insight. Called it what you want. I just want to know how things are being built.

And I have never bitched about not having the board, I really don't care if they ever finish it.

 

[Spotdawg]

It sure sounds like SixPackSpeak needs an onsite advisor....and guess what? I think you are just the guy.

Please report at 6AM tomorrow morning in work gear ( shorts, flip flops, cooler, etc.). Please advise the worksite mgr that you will be consulting and this thing better be right and quick. At that point, return to your lawnchair and pop the first top.

Please send all invoices for time, material (ah-hem) incidentals to Greg Byrne.

(Seriously, that was the most comprehensive and astute assesment of the situation yet. I just got this mental picture of 10 or 15 Sixpackers all standing around one of the holes, bent-over and looking to the bottom and arguing about who was having to go down there.)

 

[cowbell9]

...is not on top of it? Have you seen their comments about how they are 100% committed to the succesfull instalation of the board? do you think that the engineers are sleeping on the job? Lets end them to your desk and let them pick you apart. course, they prolly dont know alot obout managing a video store.

 

[skip dog]

they had just stockpiled the spoil behind the endzone, & it appears that most of the endzone has been silted over w/ the spoil from the excavation of the holes.

While I was out there, I saw an architect, 2 engineers, the GC, & a guy from campus landscape, & they all were scratching their heads looking around w/ this "what the <17> do we do now." look on their faces.

 

[Porkchop.sixpack]

I just offered my shop vac. And hell, just to be an extraordinarily nice guy, I will go pick them up a worker out of the Rick's parking lot at 6 am. ****, problem solved.

 

[skip dog]

as filthy stinkin' rich as you are, that shopvac would probably give Greg Byrne a run for his money