ᐅ What is an "assembly pit for temporary construction"?

Hello everyone,

We have just registered here and are already confident that this forum will provide us with valuable advice and tips.

We are building (after a long and difficult search for an affordable, nice plot of land) in the so-called Pfaffenwinkel region in Upper Bavaria. It is a south-facing slope with 770 sqm (8,293 sq ft). Truly a dream location to look forward to.

Currently, we are dealing with several obstacles. One is the very poor communication with the general contractor and their site manager (they are almost never reachable by phone, email, or text). Additionally, we have only just learned that a fairly large tree on our property must be cut down because its canopy would interfere with the roof structure. The site manager should have noticed this months ago. However, the local nature conservation authority is now opposing the tree removal.

But to the main topic:

Could you please explain what exactly this standard electrical installation pit is about? We have ordered a temporary construction power supply from the local electricity provider, and now they expect us to arrange, at our own expense, the excavation of a standardized installation pit. Our general contractor claims to have "never heard of this" before.

Thank you and best regards from the building owners team

Dirk & Carola

Why don’t you ask the utility provider? It’s better to ask a simple question once than to be unsure for days and waste more time.

The supplier’s cable end must be securely connected to the temporary power distribution box’s cable end. There are two ways to do this.

Either you dig a hole to expose their cable end, then connect the temporary power distribution box before filling the hole back in. This way, the connection point is protected from tampering. Afterwards, you dig it up again to establish the house connection.

Or you have them expose the cable and connect the cables using a connection pedestal, which someone needs to provide.

Because I read about the problem with the tree, there is an interesting case where the house had to be designed around an old oak tree, so that the oak was more or less integrated into the project.

Autonova schrieb:

The site manager could have noticed that months ago.

But not the client team?

guckuck2 schrieb:

The utility cable end must be securely connected to the temporary power box cable end.

Correct. The groundwork for utility connections and temporary power must be provided by the client side. You can do this yourselves or pay your construction company to do it. However, as the "client team," you cannot avoid taking care of certain tasks yourselves and educating yourselves, especially regarding the house connections.