Source: http://enr.construction.com, April 23, 2012 By Scott Judy After a federal jury took just four hours to rule that HDR Engineering’s design did not cause the cracks at Tampa Bay Water’s six-year-old reservoir, the utility was left with nothing for its gamble on a $30-million settlement offer but an estimated $24 million in legal bills. […]

Source: ENR Southeast, March 21, 2012 By: Scott Judy As the case of Tampa Bay Water v. HDR Engineering begins, a key trial expert says he still has no official opinion about the cause of the disputed cracking. By all accounts, Dr. David Carrier III is a preeminent geotechnical expert on soil science. A paper […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, December 14, 2011 By: Candy McCampbell Binghamton, N.Y., and Johnson City, N.Y., and their joint sewage board have gone back into court, detailing design and construction mismanagement problems at the sewage treatment plant where a 100-ft wall collapsed in May. Defendants now include 10 engineering or construction firms as well as four insurance […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, October 31, 2011 By: Jim Parsons Cracks in 13 cast-in-place pier caps supporting three bridges on the new Intercounty Connector toll highway in Maryland may be the result of a design flaw, according to the Maryland State Highway Administration. More than 40 cracks—ranging in width from 0.005 to 0.035 in. and in length […]

Source: http://www.delmarvanow.com, October 22, 2011 By: Sarah Lake As a jury trial for the city’s lawsuit regarding its faulty wastewater treatment plant approaches, the roster of defendants is growing. O’Brien & Gere, the company that designed the plant, and Construction Dynamics Group Inc., the project’s construction manager, have filed complaints that will pull a total […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, July 25, 2011 By: Tony Illia The future of the Las Vegas Strip’s Harmon Hotel remains clouded by competing claims over the unfinished building’s structural soundness. Released on July 11, an engineering report commissioned by owner MGM Resorts International says construction defects in the 28-story tower are “so pervasive and varied … that […]

Source: http://www.tampabay.com, June 30, 2009 By: Rich Shopes The agency operating the Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway approved a settlement Monday to recover nearly $75 million after an elevated section of the road collapsed during construction five years ago. The settlement, which comes nearly four years after the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority sued general engineering consultant […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, July 8, 2011 By: Jean-Pierre Mestanza An appeals court has shot down a lower court’s ruling that awarded the town roughly $900,000 in a lawsuit against the architectural firm that designed a facility for the police and fire departments that has been condemned due to shoddy construction. The police and fire facility, located […]

Source: http://www.ktvb.com, May 26, 2011 The Washington State Supreme Court upheld a ruling against an engineering firm that it was negligent in the horrific death of a man who fell into a vat of hot sewer sludge in an accident at the Spokane wastewater treatment plant in 2004. On May 10, 2004 a digester dome […]

Source: http://www.knoxnews.com, May 1, 2011 By: Natalie Neysa Alund From debris cleanup and odor elimination to water sampling and machinery replacement, daily reports reflect what’s been happening at the Gatlinburg Wastewater Treatment Plant since a basin wall collapsed last month and killed two workers. Although reconstruction is under way at the Banner Road facility where the […]

Source: http://www.columbiadailyherald.com By: Chris Graham Officials have sued the engineering company tapped to design and oversee construction of the city’s multi-million dollar lagoon system. The lawsuit filed in Maury County Circuit Court April 6 alleges engineers with Nashville-based James C. Hailey & Co. misrepresented the financial feasibility of a wastewater lagoon system to secure a […]

Source: St. Petersburg Times, April 7, 2011 By: Craig Pittman The company that designed Tampa Bay Water’s troubled reservoir says it doesn’t need a multimillion-dollar repair job that would raise customers’ rates, as utility officials contend. Instead, according to HDR Engineering’s senior vice president, Tim Connolly, all the reservoir needs is regular monitoring for any […]