Source: https://ca.news.yahoo.com, May 16, 2018 The City of Winnipeg is suing the construction and engineering firms that built the city’s troubled police headquarters, alleging myriad mistakes in constructing the downtown project. The city’s statement of claim was filed Wednesday at Manitoba’s Court of Queen’s Bench. The city alleges it became aware of a number of defects and deficiencies once […]

Source: https://www.oversight.gov, March 22, 2018 The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviewed potential mismanagement in the planning and oversight of two construction projects—a new Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) and an expanded Operating Room (OR) Suite—at the Oklahoma City VA Health Care System (OKCVAHCS). The projects were scheduled for completion in February 2015 and […]

Source: https://m.newsok.com, March 23, 2018 By: Justin Wingerter Two construction projects at the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center are $10.8 million overbudget, several years behind schedule and were once in violation of federal law due to engineering mismanagement and bitter disagreements between contractors, according to a federal report released Friday. The VA inspector general report […]

Source: https://www.timesunion.com, May 14, 2018 By: Brian Nearing The state will be digging out an underground plume of potentially carcinogenic chemicals beneath a former Washington Avenue dry cleaners near several homes routinely rented to college students. Plans by the Department of Environmental Conservation call for a $120,000 cleanup at the former site of RKO Cleaners, […]

Source: https://www.stanforddaily.com, May 11, 2018 By: Holden Foreman On Feb. 23, Stanford filed a federal lawsuit against multiple Hewlett-Packard companies, seeking millions in damages for HP’s purported chemical contamination of “substantial portions” of 1601 S. California Avenue — land that Stanford owns — during a grading project sometime between 1970 and 1999. The named corporations in the original […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com, April 20, 2018 By: Kim Slowey Dive Brief: Engineers tasked with finding a way to stabilize the sinking Millennium Tower in San Francisco have suggested a fix that could cost between $250 million and $500 million dollars, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The residential skyscraper cost $350 million to construct in 2008. Crews would […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com, April 2, 2018 By: Kim Slowey Dive Brief: The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs issued a report that found both a contractor and VA hospital officials demonstrated “shoddy planning” and poor oversight of an $8.7 million generator project that is $17.5 million over budget, according to The Oklahoman. […]

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com, May 8, 2018 By: Kyra Gurney and Jenny Staletovich Miami Beach is moving forward with plans to clean up four contaminated city-owned properties, including a park and a former golf course, in order to redevelop the sites. The city is in the process of designating the properties as “brownfields,” a first for Miami […]

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com, May 7, 2018 By: Andres Viglucci, Nicholas Nehamas and Jenny Staletovich A key concrete support truss in the doomed Florida International University pedestrian bridge developed worrisome cracks 10 days before the structure was lifted into place over the Tamiami Trail, photographs and an internal email unintentionally released by the school show. The documents, […]

Source: http://norcal.news, April 25, 2018 By: Bethany Klein When most people think of environmental disasters in the San Francisco Bay Area, they almost certainly think of earthquakes, seeing that there are two major fault lines near San Francisco. However, even though earthquakes can wreak immeasurable, unpredictable havoc, they are certainly not always to blame for […]

Source: https://villages-news.com, April 21, 2018 Two confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ Disease have been linked to a hot tub at Water Oak. The Florida Department of Health in Lake County is conducting an investigation of the two laboratory-confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ Disease traced to the hot tub at the club house at the 55+ community of […]

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 18, 2018 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com PPG Industries Inc. is solely liable for chemicals it has allowed to spill into the Allegheny River over the last several decades, a federal judge ruled. A six-year-old lawsuit that two environmental groups filed against PPG over chemical emissions at its former Ford City glass facility […]