A business owner I know had a fortunate run of success and needed to move his business into a larger space. His decision was to buy a plot of land and build a new facility. Midway through the excavation phase, he became concerned about the amount and cost of rock the site contractor was hitting. He was about to get a costly lesson in unforeseen conditions. That’s when I received a message from him asking, “How much should I be paying to drill and blast rock?”