No battle plan survives contact with the enemy

The enemy in this case seems to be the soil. We had it analyzed last year, and knew it was soft. Thus the plan for deep pilings. But when they started to pour the first one, it used up way more concrete ("grout") than it should have. The grout was going sideways somewhere. So metal tubes to hold the grout have been proposed, but the engineers are trying to determine if that will actually work, and keep the building from swaying in the wind. So we wait to hear from the engineers again.