With all due respect, many of you are doing what engineers do so often...they get too focused on the details and miss the real issue. The questions are not "what is the shear value of the soil, how close are the structures, to what decimal point did they round off their values, etc." the...
I'm sure a low bidder would love the opportunity to adjust his bid $999,999 and recover all of the money he left on the table. Is a public bid setting the place to allow a contractor with a non-compliant bid to adjust his bid?
It is pretty clear from the responses above that trench boxes are...
Thank you for your responses...so here's the rest of the story. Specifications on this project called for "shoring" to be utilized in the construction of the utility trench. This was due in part to the close proximity of existing footings and the fact that separate construction contracts were...
Background: A 25' wide trench has to be constructed 14' deep in a 25' corridor. There is no room to lay back the slopes. There are buildings on shallow foundations adjacent to the trench.
If the design engineer has specified that the contractor use shoring for the construction of the...
