[bomberjet]

When things happen, they need to be remedied. I guess my point is you just can not let someone dig a hole, leave unsafe conditions, and let them walk.

At this location, the shoring is only temporary and designed as such (from what the news tells me). What if it fails and the building next door collapse in? It could happen. And when geotechnical people say something is a temporary condition, they mean it. Local project in Winnipeg, they said the slopes would fail after 3 weeks. Guess what happened after 3 weeks?

You need to penalize them with whatever means you have.