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Question About New Building Construction - Can someone give info about project design?

 
PresidentElect BlueStateRebel
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04/05/2021 01:52 PM
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Question About New Building Construction - Can someone give info about project design?
Hello - I don't know anyone in Construction I can ask so I figured I'd ask you folks as GLPers know everything :)

BACKGROUND: We have a hideous construction project that was started a few months ago in my small very suburban neighborhood. There was an old house from the 1850s that had been converted into a 2 family house, with a large barn in the back and a very large back yard that borders on protected woodlands.

They tore down the house & were authorized to put up 2 very large buildings each with at least 3 condo units each with 2 car garages built in. The design is ludicrous considering the size of the plot and the neighborhood.

What they did was just put up one of these 3 condo units in about 3 months but they haven't finished it. No siding, decks and some unfinished door ways and now all construction has stopped for at least a week.

My question is that they DID NOT LEVEL OFF THE LAND IN GENERAL AND PUT IN THE UTILITIES FOR THE NEW BUILDINGS - SEPTIC, GAS, ELECTRIC, ETC. Wouldn't this come BEFORE they put up this giant building? The land on the rest of the plot (before they put this giant unit) is STILL UNEVEN and has not been developed at all. Is this the usual procedure - to put up a building before putting in all these new utilities that didn't exist there before?

This seems kind of bass-akwards to me. What do you all think? Personally I'm hoping they go broke from what they did to our neighborhood. These were people who lived here and moved and then fucked over all the neighbors.
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Re: Question About New Building Construction - Can someone give info about project design?
Thanks for any ideas or info. The Building commission in this town is very unconcerned, they seem corrupt to me. Not surprising, it's a left wing town.
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04/05/2021 02:04 PM
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Re: Question About New Building Construction - Can someone give info about project design?
they may be planning on raising the land around it, so they can put the pipework on ground level now.
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Re: Question About New Building Construction - Can someone give info about project design?
They generally hook up and put in gas, septic, water lines while doing basements and foundations. They use trenchers to dig the trenches for the pipes. Can be done very unobtrusively as the trenches are not much larger than the pipes. Easily done in a day if you weren't watching.

Electric? On larger buildings they usually set a temporary panel and power it on the site. When units are completed they do the permanent hookups. Some newer construction has them all underground.
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Re: Question About New Building Construction - Can someone give info about project design?
they may be planning on raising the land around it, so they can put the pipework on ground level now.
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Thanks for your response, I appreciate it. It's not that however, there's no reason they would raise the land...there's not that much land period! An issue was actually raised in the public hearings from neighbors as this plot is already on something of a hill and they were concerned about drainage going down into neighboring areas, which I can actually see happening.

The whole thing just seems so backward to me intuitively - I'd think they'd put in the utilities first and then the condo buildings. I figure, perhaps wrongly of course, that they put up the building just so something would be up so the project couldn't be stopped, as it's a very unpopular project here. An obvious money grab and fuck you to the neighborhood. As I say, the building inspectors seem very corrupt to me anyway.
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Re: Question About New Building Construction - Can someone give info about project design?
They generally hook up and put in gas, septic, water lines while doing basements and foundations. They use trenchers to dig the trenches for the pipes. Can be done very unobtrusively as the trenches are not much larger than the pipes. Easily done in a day if you weren't watching.

Electric? On larger buildings they usually set a temporary panel and power it on the site. When units are completed they do the permanent hookups. Some newer construction has them all underground.
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Thank you for that answer! Again, I appreciate all responses. You might be right but we've been looking at this pretty constantly and have seen no sign of that. Also the area around this new building and towards where they would put the other building is a mess, it doesn't look like they put in anything or leveled it off. It looks like the dug up the dirt for the foundation on the existing building - dumped it in the middle of the plot and just left it there.

We're wondering if they're going to abandon this building as is, if they're run out of money or something because it looks like they've just given up. Such a mess in what was once a lovely and scenic little neighborhood.
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Re: Question About New Building Construction - Can someone give info about project design?
The whole project has been done very surreptiously, in terms of approvals. They literally got the approval for this project 2 weeks after the town shut down for COVID. Everyone thought all these processes had been shut down because we were all in COVID panic, but they used that time to get the approval. The whole thing has seemed very crooked to us.





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