Concrete trucks were lined up before sunrise. Nobody on site had a stamped confirmation of where the underground feed was going to land, or whether the conduit path had even been finalized with the utility. So they poured anyway. That kind of decision haunts a project for months.
The situation described in thepaper.cn, “Baidu robotaxi outage in Wuhan caused by ‘system failure’, police say” shows what happens when systems get rolled out before the groundwork underneath them is confirmed. Different industry, same pattern. On commercial sites around Bradenton and Sarasota, I see it with underground utility installation all the time. Slab goes down. Then somebody asks where the primary feed is supposed to come in.
Once the concrete cures, your options shrink fast. Saw-cutting, core drilling, rerouting conduit around footers that should have had sleeves. None of it is cheap. And most of the time the GC blames the electrician and the electrician blames the GC.
The fix is boring but it works. Confirm the trench path, the conduit sizing and the utility coordination before anyone calls for concrete. If the new construction schedule is pushing you to pour early, push back. A day of delay beats a week of demolition.
Pour after the feed is confirmed. Not before.
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