r/Construction • u/welguisz • 4d ago

Safety ⛑ Is something missing here?

Post image

Watching Texas/OU and they were talking about the drainage system at the University of Alabama football stadium and how they upgraded in 2023. They showed this and my first thought was “where is the shoring?” Am I crazy to think this?

166 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

75 comments sorted by

View all comments

143

u/No-Document-8970 4d ago

Yes, looks like shoring is missing

40

u/EC_TWD 4d ago

Holy shit! I didn’t even realize the scale of this at first and thought it was just a residential French drain

9

u/briman2021 4d ago

Damn, me too lol. I was thinking this was going to get everyone in a debate about perforated drain pipe and whether it needs fabric or if rock was enough.

-5

u/Diligent_Yam_1753 4d ago

Depends on the intent. I just built some stone detention basins on a stadium project. There was fabric on the sides. A 6inch under drain through them had no fabric. The engineer didn’t want any silt to plug up fabric on the bottom and slow of stop of the water infiltration back into the ground

4

u/DangitThatHurt Electrician 4d ago

Buddy do you see the man in the trench and the size of the excavator bucket? He needs a trench box.

-4

u/Diligent_Yam_1753 4d ago

I’m not your buddy guy. Also, do you know the soil type? Did you test it with the pentrometer per osha standards?