Source: https://www.irmi.com/ By: American Global Design liability will remain an important topic in the construction industry for the foreseeable future, particularly with respect to design-build projects. Our first article in this design liability series, “Design Liability: The Procurement Phase,” discussed the relationship between the contractor and the designer on design-build projects and the importance of […]

Source: Berkley Construction Professional A design-build contractor hired an engineer for a multi-building commercial office complex. The main tenant could  not obtain a certificate of occupancy as the buildings failed their smoke tests due to the negligence of the engineer.  Unfortunately, the design-build contractor permitted the design firm to include a limitation-of-liability clause in its  […]

Source: https://www.cnn.com/, October 23, 2023 By: Jen Christensen The US Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a proposed plan to ban all uses of trichloroethylene (TCE), a cancer-causing chemical that is common in manufacturing and can be found in thousands of water sources and properties around the world. Since the 1920s, the ubiquitous environmental contaminant has been one […]

Source: https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/, October 19, 2023 By: Daniel Tepfer Two class action lawsuits claim the state’s two largest water suppliers, Aquarion and Connecticut Water Co., knowingly supplied water contaminated with chemicals used in the manufacturing of plastics to hundreds of thousands of state residents. The lawsuits, filed in Hartford and Bridgeport Superior Courts on Wednesday, state […]

Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/, October 19, 2023 By: Jim Masters The town of Dyer is contending with a hazardous materials incident that halted a local road construction project. Wednesday’s Dyer Town Council meeting was an opportunity for residents to question town officials about the potential dangers of the contaminated soil excavated from an area on Magnolia Avenue […]

Source: https://whitmanwire.com/, October 19, 2023 By: Natalie Comerford and Coden Stark The Marcus Whitman Hotel & Conference Center evacuated on Sept. 14 due to a mysterious chemical odor in their basement, and remained closed for almost a month. Since then, the City of Walla Walla, the Washington Department of Ecology and a privately contracted company, Clean Harbors Environmental […]

Source: https://www.thedailyreporter.com/, October 18, 2023 By: Don Reid Officials left a lot of questions unanswered Wednesday about the break in a 10-inch petroleum pipeline that flooded about 8,400 gallons of gasoline into a farm field eight miles north of Coldwater.  They said at a Wednesday afternoon press conference no immediate environmental threat remains. BP line […]

Source: https://krcgtv.com, October 18, 2023 By: Ryan Smith The city of Columbia is looking into possible contamination of black mold at two of the city’s fire departments on Wednesday, this coming as an anonymous tip sent pictures of areas within fire station six that looked to have mold growing on them earlier in the week. […]

Source: Berkley Construction Professional A design-build contractor placed foundation piles for a high-rise apartment building in incorrect locations due to an error by a land surveyor they hired. The surveyor was uninsured and had gone out of business. The design builder  needed to fund the settlement because there was no other insurance available. The remediation […]

Source: https://hickoryrecord.com/, October 18, 2023 By: Kevin Griffin Hickory Mayor Hank Guess said Wednesday the city can now move on after reaching a $1.325 million settlement in the collapse of the City Walk arches. “We’re satisfied with the result of the settlement and we’re wanting to move ahead with all the exciting economic development projects […]

Source: https://ksltv.com/, October 17, 2023 More safety concerns for an apartment building under construction in downtown Ogden as inspectors say the proper fire retardant-treated wood is not being used and now the city has noted several structural problems inside. It’s a big enough problem that the city has staff keeping an eye on the building […]

Source: https://mauinow.com/, October 16, 2023 Preliminary, unvalidated data from ash sampling received late Friday night shows very high levels of arsenic, and elevated levels of lead and cobalt, in wildfire ash collected in Kula, the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health announced on Sunday. The ash samples were collected on Sept. 21 in Kula from eight […]