It’s 7 AM. There’s a water line being installed in a wall on Level 6 of your multi-hundred million dollar condo project. Although your high-priced acoustics consultant instructed your high-priced architect to specify sound isolation pads be added to the feeder pipes that service two adjoining condo units, the responsibility for executing this expensive design detail falls on a 20-year old plumber’s apprentice who was out drinking ’til the wee hours the night before. The sound isolation pads get left in the box – whatever, dude.
A lawsuit seed has just been planted.
This scenario is played out on construction sites around the world every day.
Tags: class action lawsuits, condominium lawsuits, Construction Verification, Homeowner Association lawsuits, sound proofing
April 30, 2008 at 3:28 pm |
Great post. The construction business is a people business and as humans, we’re not perfect. The more people involved in a process, the more risk that one worker on the team can be an undesireable.