Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/, June 5, 2023 By: Marlene Lenthang and Erik Ortiz A resident of the Iowa building that partially collapsed last week filed a lawsuit Monday against its owner, the city of Davenport, and engineers and contractors who worked on the building, alleging that they knew it was failing but intentionally kept tenants in the dark, even […]

Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/, May 21, 2023 By: Prapti Upadhayay A major legal battle is brewing in New York City as the designer of the prestigious Hunters Point Library in Long Island City is being sued for allegedly failing to provide handicapped access. City lawyers filed a lawsuit against architect Steven Holl and his firm in Manhattan […]

Source: https://omaha.com/, April 11, 2023 By: Lori Pilger The State of Nebraska is suing a Lincoln company it had a contract with for architectural and engineering services on a 25,000-square-foot addition to the Eastern Nebraska Veterans’ Home in Bellevue. In a lawsuit filed this week in Lincoln, Assistant Nebraska Attorney General Erik Fern said the […]

Source: https://www.wilmingtonbiz.com/, December 20, 2022 By: Johanna F. Still The town of Leland has reached a settlement arising from a dispute with engineering services firm URS Corp., also known as AECOM, a Fortune 500 company. URS has agreed to pay the town $75,000 to avoid a lawsuit for the town’s claims regarding faulty construction plans […]

Source: https://www.reporterherald.com/, October 14, 2022 By: Tommy Wood The owner of Union on Plum, the Campus West apartment complex that was shut down and evacuated because of structural issues last year, has sued the development’s architect and engineer for alleged design defects. The complaint was filed Oct. 7 in Larimer County District Court. Property manager […]

Source: https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/, October 19, 2022 By: Chris Cook Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is suing three companies for what it describes as “shoddy design and workmanship on a Zane State College building” according to a press release from Yost’s office. The suit alleges that falling debris has “created a danger to students” which necessitated the closure […]

Source: https://www.reporterherald.com/, October 14, 2022 By: Tommy Wood The owner of Union on Plum, the Campus West apartment complex that was shut down and evacuated because of structural issues last year, has sued the development’s architect and engineer for alleged design defects. The complaint was filed Oct. 7 in Larimer County District Court. Read more.

Source: https://www.law.com/, July 19, 2022 By: Colleen Murphy After obtaining default judgments for construction defects against a structural engineering firm and a construction inspection company, a New Jersey condominium association may directly sue those companies’ insurer, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled. At the same time, the court reversed the Appellate Division’s holding that those […]

Source: https://www.elonnewsnetwork.com/, June 11, 2022 By: Miranda Ferrante One of Elon University’s student apartment complexes, Park Place at Elon, is at the center of a dispute in which Greensboro-based Samet Corporation is suing a subcontractor and architecture company hired to work on the mixed-use development for allegedly failing to provide services in a way that would have prevented […]

Source: https://www.newcivilengineer.com/, June 1, 2022 By: Catherine Kennedy A Canadian engineer will face a disciplinary hearing this month after a bridge he designed collapsed just hours after opening. The five-day hearing in front of a panel of the Discipline Committee of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) will begin on 6 […]

Source: https://www.greeleytribune.com/, May 21 By: Trenton Sperry The Greeley City Council on Tuesday gave City Attorney Doug Marek permission to pursue legal actions, including potential lawsuits, against the construction and engineering firms tasked with a $25 million renovation of the city’s Bellvue Water Treatment facility completed in 2020. Built in 1907 at the mouth of […]

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/, May 13, 2022 By: Geoff Leo Regina engineer Scott Gullacher will face a disciplinary hearing next month over allegations that he broke the rules when he designed a bridge in rural Saskatchewan that collapsed just hours after it was opened to the public. On Sept. 14, 2018, the Rural Municipality (RM) of Clayton announced […]