We walked around the construction site for quite a while, and luckily, we didn't run into any trouble from the contractor. I asked Old Sha curiously," Why didn't I see any contractor looking for you?”Old Sha replied," The contractor is busy and doesn't have much time to stay at the construction site. They have to run the materials and recruit people. They don't have the money to pay for the project themselves. They have to go around borrowing money. When they can't pay back the money on credit, it's difficult to get more credit. But in order not to stop work, they have to shamelessly ask the supplier for more materials on credit. That way, it's difficult for them to stay at the construction site. Moreover, the workers under the contractor were all found at the last minute. In order to find the workers to work, the contractor knew that he could not pay them on time, but in order to pull them to the construction site, he had to coax and deceive them. Some people left after working for a few days and seeing that they couldn't get the money, some migrant workers left right after they arrived. The contractor was also entangled with the two matters of borrowing materials and finding labor. He ran these two matters outside all day and rarely had time to stay at the construction site.”
We walked out of the construction site of the commercial district and walked towards the construction site of the commercial and residential buildings. We saw Xiao Tang pointing at the bricklayers and saying something. I asked Lao Sha," What exactly do Xiao Tang and Xiao Qiu do every day?”Old Sha replied," We hired them to sell the house, but it's still too early to do so. If the house is not capped, we won't be able to get a sales license from the government. Most of them have only completed the basic parts, and some of them haven't even completed the basic parts. The sales work is only to prepare some documents. There's not much to do. They just follow the construction site and manage some things. They can be considered half construction workers.”"Do they know anything about construction management?" I asked. "Oh, someone's taking them. Bo hired a professional construction worker to supervise and inspect the quality of the project on site. I asked Xiao Tang and Xiao Qiu to be his helpers. Two of his subordinates listened to his command. The construction worker was very happy and was willing to lead the two of them.”We walked to a place a few steps behind Xiao Tang and stopped. He was still loudly pointing at a few masons. I quickly understood that he was asking the masons to apply enough mortar when laying bricks.
Old Sha called out," Lil Tang." Lil Tang turned around and walked towards us. As he walked, he said," These masons, as long as you don't see them, they will do whatever they want. I told them to cover the bricks with mortar, but they wouldn't do it obediently. They only covered the sides. There is no mortar in the middle of the bricks. I said that they couldn't do it like this, so they argued with me, saying that all the houses in their village were painted like this. You mean infuriating?"
Old Sha said to me,"The tallest building in the county was only four or five stories tall, and it was all made of brick and wood. Although we have started to get involved in real estate development, there is no real estate construction team in the county. The labor force hired by the contractor was basically farmers or idle labor in the town (including unemployed workers from closed enterprises in the county). The quality of these labor forces did not match the requirements of skilled construction workers at all. Those who could use a clay knife to build two bricks were considered masters. In their opinion, the so-called standard requirements were as simple as building a house in the countryside. There was no need to be so particular about it.”When I heard this, I understood. With the level of these laborers, telling them about the construction technical requirements and construction quality standards was like playing the piano to a cow. I thought that with such a construction team, the quality of the house would be greatly reduced. The project management was so loose, and the quality of the construction team was so low. How could they bear the heavy responsibility of people's lives and property? When I came out to work, seeking benefits and avoiding harm was the most important thing. Don't get yourself into trouble because of the quality of the project. If that happened, it would be too worthless. Fortunately, the buildings in this project were ordinary buildings with low floors. There were no complicated designs or buildings with difficult construction. Even if the quality of the construction was not high, there should not be any major problems. I could only comfort myself like this.
Old Sha asked Lil Tang,"Why don't I see Master Ding (the construction worker hired by Bo City) and Lil Qiu?”Xiao Tang replied,"Master Ding, Xiao Qiu, and Boss Wang (one of the labor supervisors) have sent concrete samples to the quality supervision station for testing. They are the cement samples of the foundation beams of this building. They might not be back until noon.”When I heard that, I was relieved that the government's construction quality supervision department was helping to guard the quality of the building's key bearing structure. Otherwise, I would have thought of going home again.
Old Sha said to Lil Tang," Then you stay here and keep an eye on it. I'll bring the boss to the other foundations to take a look."”On the outskirts of the market near the village, five commercial and residential buildings were lined up in a line. They were all designed with a frame structure. Three buildings had already completed the foundation beam watering, and one was preparing to pour concrete. There was also a building that had stopped halfway. It seemed like it had been stopped for a while. Old Sha said," The pile foundations of these commercial and residential buildings have cost a lot of money. According to the drilling information provided here, the design depth of the pile foundations is four meters deep. However, when the construction was carried out, the foundation was not hard even after four meters. They had to dig deeper. Some of them were five meters deep and some were six meters deep. This situation was still considered good. The building at the end of the tunnel had two piles next to each other. They had been digging for almost seven meters, but they had not touched the hard foundation. The equipment could not dig any deeper. According to the calculation, the bearing capacity of the seven-meter-deep pile was enough. However, the bad thing was that one of the piles was on the spring. Even with a few water pump, the water could not be drained. The cement poured down was quickly diluted by the water gushing out, leaving only pebbles in the pit.”
We walked to one end of the building's foundation. The pile foundation above the spring was the top of the building's foundation. It wasn't like a pile, but a small pond. The pit mouth was four to five meters in diameter, and the water level was almost the same as the pit mouth. The water surface looked green, but it was six to seven meters deep. It was a little scary. The pit was filled with solidified cement dregs, and the equipment and tools for mixing the concrete were all thrown there. The scene was very messy. It seemed that the work here had been suspended for some time. Lao Sha pointed at the equipment and tools beside the pit and said," The contractor who contracted this building wasted a lot of cement and gravel materials and labor on this pile foundation. In the end, he still couldn't pour the pile successfully. He felt that he was at a disadvantage. In fact, he didn't have the ability to continue. In addition, he couldn't get the money, so he simply quit. He had stopped working for half a month.”"Then what should we do now? We can't just leave it like this, right?”I asked Old Sha. "President Hua said that he would find the designer of this building, Liao Gong, to deal with it on the spot. Then, he would change the position of the piles from the blueprint design, re-produce the blueprint, and re-apply the blueprint approval procedures to the quality supervision department.”Old Sha replied. "When will Liao Gong come here?”I asked. "President Hua said that Liao Gong will be here soon, but I don't know why he hasn't come yet.”Lao Sha didn't know when Liao Gong would come. "Leave this to me. I'll ask President Hua.”Hua gave me his phone, so it was naturally my business to contact Hua. "That's great. Can you tell President Hua about this now?”Old Sha was also anxious to settle this matter. I took out the "big sister" from my backpack and dialed President Hua's number. Soon, she heard President Hua's voice." President Niu, is there anything urgent?”"President Hua, please urge Liao Gong to come to the site to deal with the pile foundation.”I said briefly. "Oh, I'll give you his phone number. You can talk to him directly. Take down his phone number." Hua said. I asked Old Sha to help me memorize Liao Gong's phone number. I was afraid that President Hua would be long-winded on the phone, so I quickly said,"There's nothing else for the time being. Goodbye, President Hua."”President Hua also understood me, so he didn't say anything more and hung up. I asked Lao Sha," Have you met Liao Gong?”"I haven't seen him. When I came, those engineers had already returned to the provincial capital.”
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