Picture a job site where the framers are wrapping up, the mechanical crew is hanging duct, the plumbers are running their lines and the electrical rough-in is the only thing not moving. That stall is what kills a schedule, and it happens more often than most GCs want to admit on a commercial new construction project.
What happens when a system everyone depends on suddenly freezes mid-operation? That’s the concern raised by abcnews.com, “Passengers stranded in moving traffic after robotaxi outage in China’s Wuhan”. Over 100 Baidu robotaxis quit at the same time because of one system glitch, and the people inside had no fallback. Job sites work the same way. When rough-in stops, every trade behind it ends up stuck in traffic.
Honestly, most of the time the stall is not about manpower. It’s missed coordination on conduit routing, late submittals on gear, panel locations changing after framing or an inspector flagging something that should have been caught at the planning stage. Sometimes the service entry isn’t ready. A new electrical service tie-in that wasn’t sequenced properly can shut down a whole floor of progress.
If your electrical contractor is not in pre-con conversations early, you will pay for it later. Pull them in before the slab is poured, not after the walls are up.
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