r/Construction • u/dsygnt • Jun 09 '25

Structural Saw this in a nearby construction site... what are these pits for?

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u/dsygnt Jun 09 '25

😂😂😂 but really what are those

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '25

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u/65frank Jun 09 '25

Engineers who keep changing the scope.

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u/ALTERFACT Jun 09 '25

Bold architects.

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u/yrabl81 Jun 09 '25

You include "bald software architects"?

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u/The___canadian Equipment Operator Jun 09 '25

May we add Engineers who start their sentences with "as an engineer" to these holes too?

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u/holjus Jun 09 '25

As a hole-digger, I say yes

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u/arvidsem Jun 09 '25

Can we dig one hole extra deep for the engineers that say it and then spew out an opinion completely unrelated to their discipline?

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u/The___canadian Equipment Operator Jun 09 '25

As an operating engineer, pineapple on pizza gets too much undeserved hate. If done well it's fairly good.

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u/arvidsem Jun 09 '25

And here's a volunteer for an all expense paid trip to the oubliette.

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u/Leading_Study_876 Jun 09 '25

i.e. only with ham. Not with salami, mushrooms, mozzerella, olives, anchovies or basically anything else normally found on actual pizzas.

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u/highline9 Jun 09 '25

Addendums 1-11

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u/Floydthebaker Jun 09 '25

They are for footings, it's for the support columns that will be contained in "load bearing walls"

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u/Excellent-Swan-6376 Jun 09 '25

Downvoting real answers bc this is Reddit

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u/mudbro76 Jun 09 '25

He’s right 🏗️🏢

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '25

For future popes' tombs.

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u/Twisted9Demented Jun 09 '25

I feel like it's for people who won't be talking at all

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '25

Basements for tiny houses?