Source: http://www.lexology.com, March 23, 2016 By: Carly Miller, Bradly Arant Boult Cummings LLP A recent Pennsylvania case, Gongloff Contracting, LLC v. L. Robert Kimball & Assocs., Architects and Engineers, Inc., sheds light on circumstances in which design errors can lead to damages in tort as courts recognize exceptions to the economic loss doctrine for such […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, May 12, 2015 By: Nick Zeman The failure in March of a geosynthetically reinforced runway extension at Charleston, W.Va.’s Yeager International Airport has triggered a lengthy dispute among the airport’s insurance carrier, AIG Aero, the designer Triad Engineering and contractor Cast and Baker over the liability for damages, currently estimated at $16 million […]

Source: http://press.hse.gov.uk, March 13, 2015 Three construction companies have been fined after a worker was crushed by a falling section of conveyor at a plant in Sleaford. The incident happened during construction of the Sleaford Renewable Energy plant on Boston Road on 14 February 2013 when the 4.5 tonne conveyor section overturned during installation. It […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, February 26, 2015 By: Candy McCampbell The Mount Polley Mine earthen dam in western Canada failed because of a faulty design that didn’t consider the geology of the perimeter foundation, an independent review panel says. The Aug. 4 incident dumped 4.5 billion gallons of water and 10.3 million cu yd of mine tailings […]

Source: http://www.couriernews.com, August 13, 2011 By: Lindsey Williams Filing claims architecture firm caused delay in construction at RHS The construction of Russellville High School’s Center for the Performing Arts has sparked a lawsuit, court documents show. EWI Inc., the construction manager for the performing arts center project, filed a civil suit Aug. 5 in Pope […]

Source: http://www.sfgate.com, August 4, 2014 By: Jaxon Van Derbeken Top Caltrans officials are expected to respond Tuesday to accusations that they “gagged and banished” engineers who identified construction problems on the new Bay Bridge eastern span and that the agency failed to maintain basic quality control on the project. In advance of a state Senate hearing, […]

Source: http://www.sfgate.com, June 6, 2014 By: Randall Chase An engineer who first noticed that columns supporting a major interstate highway bridge in Delaware were tilting said he visited the site shortly after the bridge was closed and saw that they had shifted even farther. The account of geotechnical engineer Dave Charles in an interview Thursday with […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, October 25, 2013 By: Scott Hennigh, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton Typically an architect is liable under its contract to the owner if it negligently creates a defective design. But whether an architect is liable for the effects of a defective design on parties with whom it has no contract has traditionally been […]

Source: http://www.delmarvanow.com, October 27, 2013 By: Beth Miller The state Department of Transportation announced Friday it had reached settlement with two engineering firms it sued for losses in an ill-fated Indian River Inlet bridge project that was mired in problems for years. Delaware will get $5.25 million from the two firms — $5 million from […]

Facts: An employee at an automatic car wash was crushed by a truck when he jumped in front of it to try and stop it. The insured, civil engineer, designed a grading plan for a car wash over 16 years ago. The named insured acquired another firm and the predecessor firm was an additional insured […]

Source: Georgetown Times (SC), January 18, 2013 By: Scott Harper The first lawsuit has been filed in connection with the sinkholes that formed in the City of Georgetown in late 2011 damaging several buildings and homes. Tony and Debbie Jordan filed the suit in the 15th Circuit Court Tuesday naming Davis & Floyd Engineering, Republic […]

Source: The Charleston Gazette, January 7, 2013 By: Jim Balow A 12-year-old lawsuit against the designers of Charleston’s ill-fated composting facility has finally been settled, City Council members learned Monday. O’Brien & Gere, the New York-based engineers that designed the former sewage sludge composting facility in North Charleston, agreed to settle the city’s suit for […]