Source: https://www.floridabulldog.org, February 6, 2019 By: Dan Christensen Two months after last year’s fatal FIU pedestrian bridge collapse in Miami, the company that built the bridge was responsible for a troubling construction failure at Port Everglades. Munilla Construction Management LLC, which operates as MCM, was hired by Broward County in 2016 as the prime contractor […]

Source: https://www.enr.com, February 6, 2019 By: Scott Van Voorhis and Richard Korman With land surveys, contractors often expect some information will be missing. But how much? Fifteen years ago, El Paso Corp. decided to replace a 68-mile-long pipeline with a new one that would carry butane from Corpus Christi, Texas, to inland Air Force bases. […]

Source: https://www.businessreport.com, February 4, 2019 By: Stephanie Riegel The Texas subcontractor blamed in recent court filings for the structural failure that has stalled the under-construction downtown library for nearly 10 months now is denying culpability and pointing the finger at a Mississippi engineering firm. In court documents filed January 29, Houston-based Structural Consultants Associates, Inc.—which […]

Source: https://www.enr.com, January 10, 2019 By: Nadine M. Post On Jan. 10, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority announced that procurement has begun for the repair of the two fractured bottom flanges of the twin parallel girders that span 80 ft across Fremont Street in the 4.5-block-long Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco. TJPA shuttered the […]

Source: https://www.postandcourier.com, November 20, 2018 By: Warren L. Wise Two years after Charleston International celebrated completion of its terminal expansion and overhaul, another legal tussle has cropped up. The airport’s oversight agency is now suing the architect and a subcontractor in state court for at least $1.5 million over the installation of a cable system […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com, October 30, 2018 By: Doug Tabeling, Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP on behalf of ConsensusDocs Design flaws are a constant risk in construction, but the contractual allocation of that risk can sway considerably from project to project. Contract terms can vary from fully expressing an owner’s warranty of the sufficiency of plans and […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com, November 26, 2018 By: Joe Beeton “There is no such thing as risk.” That was the bold message delivered by Grant Holland of Mott MacDonald at last month’s annual Design-Build Institute of America conference in New Orleans. “You cannot quantify, in definitive terms, a particular risk on a project. Every stakeholder has a […]

Source: https://www.chieftain.com, October 17, 2018 The general contractor that managed San Francisco’s troubled $2 billion transit terminal is suing the agency in charge of the project alleging faulty design and mismanagement. The joint venture of Webcor Builders and Obayashi Corp. filed the lawsuit Tuesday in San Francisco. It alleges design and planning mistakes sent construction […]

“Source: https://www.bostonglobe.com, November 15, 2018 By: Milton J. Valencia Federal investigators Thursday singled out a Columbia Gas engineer with “limited knowledge” for errors in drafting work plans for a Lawrence construction site, setting in motion a chain of events that led to the Sept. 13 natural gas explosions that killed one man and left thousands without heat […]

Source: http://www.globalconstructionreview.com, November 16, 2018 A federal US body investigating the fatal collapse of a bridge in Miami has concluded that there were design errors which could have caused concrete cracking observed before the bridge fell. Engineers overestimated the load capacity of a critical section, its interim report said. The report released yesterday by the National Transportation […]

Source: https://www.eastbaytimes.com, November 9, 2018 By: Erin Baldassari Testing of two cracked beams at the Salesforce Transit Center will extend into next week and the results could prompt further testing, officials said Thursday, pushing the estimated date for determining a cause of the failures to the end of the month or later. Once a cause […]

Source: https://www.businessinsurance.com, November 6, 2018 By: Gaven Souter Delays in construction projects can cause huge increases in costs, but identifying insurance policies to cover the costs is complex and varies significantly depending on policy wordings, construction insurance experts say. While traditional construction insurance coverages may apply or specific delay in startup insurance may be triggered, […]