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.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 […]

Read here about a nearly $7 million settlement that has been reached between the University of Oregon and the architect/engineer that built a dorm.

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com, December 19, 2016 By: Daniel J. Sernovitz The team behind the $124 million Ballou Senior High School modernization is seeking at least $2 million in damages from the project’s architects over claims they delivered incomplete design plans for the Southeast D.C. building. Chiaramonte-Hess, a joint venture between Chiaramonte Construction Co. and Hess Construction […]

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com, December 8, 2016 By: Melia Robinson Millennium Tower, a $350 million skyscraper completed in 2008, has sunk 16 inches and tilted two inches since it opened. Now San Francisco’s very own “leaning tower” is in the middle of a battle between the building’s developers, residents, and city officials over who’s at fault. The fight’s far from […]

Source: http://www.constructiondive.com, November 21, 2016 By: Kim Slowey Dive Brief: An attorney acting on behalf of four construction workers killed or injured in a 2014 pedestrian bridge collapse has filed a lawsuit in Wake County, NC, seeking financial damages of more than $250,000, according to the News & Observer. One worker was killed and three […]

Source: https://www.biztimes.com, November 28, 2016 By: Arthur Thomas Novum Structures says it cost $5 million to fix issue with welds Menomonee Falls-based Novum Structures is suing a Minnesota engineering firm claiming its failure to check calculations led to the use of welds that did not meet the load requirements in the glass atrium at the […]

Source: New York Times Online, November 11, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Five years ago, when Frank Jernigan, a retired Google software engineer, and his husband bought a 50th-floor apartment in downtown San Francisco for $4 million, they felt on top of the world. And judging by the commanding view of San Francisco Bay from the […]

Source: http://www.smokymountainnews.com, November 9, 2016 By: Cory Vaillancourt Haywood Community College’s new Creative Arts Building was supposed to be a state-of-the-art, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly facility. Instead, according to allegations made in a complex, far-ranging lawsuit filed by HCC Oct. 28, it’s leaky, creaky and becoming a multi-million dollar boondoggle. Voters approved a quarter-cent sales tax […]

Source: http://www.knoe.com, November 4, 2016 By: Tim Bragg The Frontage Road bridge in Monroe may be closed for a little while longer. A civil lawsuit has been filed against Denmon Engineering, the company responsible for drawing up the bridge plans. It’s appears to be an abandoned section of roadway, blocked off by large dirt mounds, […]

Source: http://www.watertowndailytimes.com, October 28, 2016 By: Craig Fox The manufacturer of the roof on the city’s ice arena warned that it needed some kind of system to prevent large chunks of snow and ice from falling off the renovated facility. Lawrence J. Coburn, who oversaw the arena project as its construction manager, recalled that the […]