Source: http://www.csindy.com, February 1, 2017 By: Pam Zubeck Toxic legacy On March 4, 2013, Kat Tudor stood in a parking lot in downtown Colorado Springs and got slapped in the face with dust from the lot next door. “I was covered with dirt and choking,” she recalled a few weeks later. Crews were busy tearing […]

Source: https://www.adn.com, January 31, 2017 By: Devin Kelly The city of Anchorage has reached settlements with three remaining contractors involved in the botched Port of Anchorage expansion project, ending a lawsuit that stretched nearly three years and recouped only a fraction of what the city had sought in damages. Engineering firm CH2M Hill Alaska Inc. […]

Source: http://www.bendbulletin.com, January 29, 2017 By: Marina Starleaf Riker City being sued for what construction company calls ‘extraordinary’ number of design errors Budgeting issues, design flaws and construction defects were among a number of challenges the city of Bend dealt with while expanding its sewer treatment plant. Next month, the city will be responsible for […]

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com, February 1, 2017 By: James Tarmy and Kartikay Mehrotra The Millennium Tower is still sinking, and residents might be stuck paying for the fixes themselves. Nina Agabian, a retired director of research in global health science at the University of California, bought a 29th-floor apartment in San Francisco’s Millennium Tower in 2010. “It was […]

Source: http://www.enr.com, January 24, 2017 By: Scott Van Voorhis Rectification insurance is filling a need on more design-build projects Mistakes made by architects or engineers in the design process can often come back to haunt a general contractor later during construction. Whether it’s a miscalculation in the dimensions of a building’s foundation or the choice […]

Source: http://www.oleantimesherald.com, January 28, 2017 By: Kelsey Boudin A day after publicly discussing a pending roof replacement at the Manufacturers Hanover building, the city’s Urban Renewal Agency on Friday reported that mold contaminates the long-vacant structure. The mold, discovered during a recent air quality test, was not visually apparent on any surfaces on the first […]

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, January 27, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Bed linens supplied to UPMC and possibly hundreds of other health care facilities carried fungus linked to a deadly mold crisis, according to an internal report commissioned by UPMC. The report, filed Thursday in Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas as part of two ongoing wrongful […]

Source: Constructor, January/February 2017 By: Debra Wood BENEFITS AND WORDS TO THE WISE AS MANY OWNERS AND contractors seek to enhance the construction experience by considering different project-delivery methods, they are opting for construction manager at risk (CMAR), which provides opportunities for improved collaboration, but, as the name states, also comes with risks to be […]

Source: http://www.heraldnet.com, January 25, 2017 By: Rikki King Contractors recently agreed to pay the city more than $1.4 million to settle a lawsuit over the construction of the Lynnwood Recreation Center. The center opened in 2011 with pools, water slides and workout space. The total cost was more than $22 million. Within six months, it […]

Source: https://www.asbestos.com, January 25, 2017 By: Beth Swantek An $80 million asbestos settlement involving two former Jackson County courthouse employees led to Missouri’s largest medical monitoring fund established in an asbestos case. The class-action asbestos lawsuit settled more than 30 years after a renovation exposed thousands of government workers to deadly asbestos fibers. Jackson County […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, January 24, 2017 By: Alex Napoliello The U.S. Air Force is actively testing drinking water wells used by private residences in four Burlington and Ocean county towns surrounding Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL). Tech Sgt. Chris Powell said requests to test water samples were hand delivered to residences in New Hanover, Pemberton, Manchester […]

Source: http://news10.com. January 23, 2017 By: Carmen Chau The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was at a meeting in Ballston Spa Monday after chemicals were found leaking at a local dry cleaner. Rickett’s Dry Cleaning has been closed for three years. In summer 2016, the Department of Environmental Conservation told the EPA to test for chemicals, […]