Underground Conduit Run.
The job is to replace around ~ 160ft. of conduit, and 6 HID, and circuit wiring, that feeds 8 HID [photocell controlled] lights under one side of a ground-level apartment-block parking area, following a fire under the (open-air, and detached) parking lot. The lot is not situated under any sort of building, or structure.
Whilst working on the project - (note:- the estimators sized-up the job) - I noticed that the existing conduit run between the R/H, and L/H. parking-lot areas had been bridged by a run of 1/2 inch PVC down both the right, and left walls at the entrance of the parking-lot driveway, and on the L/H side, the 1/2 inch PVC conduit transitioned , via a plastic s/g junction-box, into non-metallic seal-tight, which then dove into a badly topped black-top trench, and disappeared underground in the finished trench: (By the way, when the conduit re-appears the other side of the driveway, it comes up in rigid PVC).
I work for a very large, almost global corporate entity, whose name I can't reveal right now, and this [minute] job, is for a massive apartment management entity.
So, there is a lot of buddy, buddy stuff going on, and a lot of patting on the [assured] backs of the executives on the golf course -- that the job is going to be [done].
The management company insists on pulling a permit.
When the inspector gets a load of this he is going to write it up to the hilt - unless he's on the "take", that is. But this inspector is something else! He's an Elliot Ness; and that's good!
Here's the deal:-
When the shinola hits the fan, I want to be up-wind.
Although, we are a multybillion dollar entity, you wouldn't believe the fuss that goes on if one of these "armchair" bids goes underwater. I feel it is the ego, or arrogance maybe, of the sales department denizens. They refuse to take responsibility for jobs "going under", and always use the "multi-finger-pointing method", as a resolution to any outcome that doesn't garner the mandated 40% profit margin required on every job. It's simply -- unconscionable.
In order to stay afloat, and have half a chance to refute incrimination, as outlined in "business as usual" stated above: What is the minimum depth of running a conduit across the driveway. Forget boring, and pulling. What is the minimum depth? It is a 120 volt circuit.
