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.timescolonist.com, August 20, 2014 By: Carla Wilson The design-build contractors for the Royal Jubilee Hospital’s Patient Care Centre are due $8.5 million from insurance companies to cover the expense of concrete-slab repairs during construction, states a B.C. Supreme Court judgment. The contractors took their insurance companies to court, seeking to recoup $14.9 million spent […]

Source: Daily News of Newburyport (MA), July 16, 2014 Posted on: http://constfpn.advisen.com It appears that the $292 million Whittier Bridge/I-95 Improvement Project has hit a snag after a faulty concrete pour. Concrete was incorrectly poured in a support pier that rises out of the Merrimack River. Work has been ongoing to remove the problem and […]

Source: http://www.claimsjournal.com, July 3, 2014 A recent decision by a New York appeals court found that an insurer had no duty to defend construction defect claims despite an expanded definition of “occurrence” within an Owner Controlled Insurance Program (OCIP). National Union Fire Insurance Company insured the construction project through an OCIP which covered the property […]

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 […]

The Harmon is a highrise building in the CityCenter Las Vegas development in Paradise, Nevada. The tower was designed by Foster + Partners as a non-gaming boutique hotel, and was to be operated by Andrew Sasson’s The Light Group upon completion. The building features an elliptical layout and highly reflective exterior located on the northeast […]

Source: http://southeast.construction.com, May 2005 By: Scott Judy Dealing With Problems, Agency Pushes Accountability One day after a major rainstorm in January 2004, construction crews discovered evidence of cracking on some of the piers of the nearly completed $60 million Memorial Causeway Bridge in Clearwater, Fla. Further investigation revealed deep cracks penetrating more than halfway through […]

Source: http://lakezurich.suntimes.com, September 5, 2013 By: Laura Pavin Community Unit School District 95 recently approved a settlement agreement with the last of the five companies whose work allegedly led to structural issues at Spencer Loomis Elementary School and Middle School North in Hawthorn Woods. Ending a six-year-old lawsuit, school board members agreed in August to […]

Source: http://www.arabianbusiness.com, August 27, 2013 A judge in the US has granted permission for Dubai World, the investment arm of the Dubai government, to demolish the half-built Harmon Hotel tower of the CityCenter Las Vegas development, it was reported. The Harmon Hotel tower, co-owned by MGM Resorts International, was designed as a 48-storey component of […]

Source: http://www.kansascity.com, August 7, 2013 By: Kevin Collison The owner of the private Branson Airport is accusing Burns & McDonnell and three other firms of designing and building a $70 million runway foundation that partially collapsed just two years after the facility opened in 2009. Branson Airport LLC, which operates what’s described as the nation’s […]

Source: http://www.spiegel.de, August 12, 2013 By: Frank Patalong The 47-story luxury In Tempo tower in Benidorm, Spain was hyped as the tallest residential building in the European Union. Now a series of construction snafus — including an inadequate elevator shaft — have turned it into a national embarrassment. It should have been the pride of […]

Source: http://www.gazette.net, July 9, 2013 By: Kara Rose Leggett said county was cleared to begin work on concrete slabs Monday County Executive Isiah Leggett said Monday night that he took full responsibility for the delayed opening of the troubled Silver Spring Transit Center, also announcing work to fix the center will start within a week. […]