Archives for the 'Construction' Category
Construction Defect Links
As a follow up to the previous post, here are some more links. This time we’re catching up on links related specifically to construction litigation and construction defect litigation.
First up is a story that has come up before. It involves a homeowner, a builder, some defective construction and a binding arbitration clause. The homeowner is [...]
8 October 2007 | Construction, Construction Defect, Construction and Law, Litigation | No Comments
Tools, tools and more tools!
We’re catching up on some stories that have been circulating around the internet. In this post we’ll tackle some of the hot new products in the world of tools.
At the top of this year’s holiday wish list for anyone in the construction defect investigation business is the Rigid SeeSnake micro Inspection Camera. This would almost [...]
8 October 2007 | Construction, General, Inspections | No Comments
Bay Bridge Deck Replacement Time-Lapse Photography
A section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge’s upper deck was replaced in one large operation over the Labor Day weekend. This is truly an amazing engineering feat. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission that oversees the project captured the event using time-lapse photography and posted it on their site. Below is a screenshot:
“So smooth, it was [...]
18 September 2007 | Construction, General, Photography | No Comments
Protecting Homeowners from Unscrupulous Attorneys and Inspectors
Chapter 40 is a law under the Nevada Revised Statutes that specifically addresses construction defects and related claims in that state. It has resulted in a dramatic change in Nevada CD cases and is similar in some ways to California Senate Bill 800. One similarity between the two is the difficulty most people in the [...]
16 September 2007 | Construction, Construction Defect, Construction and Law, Litigation | No Comments
Lying Home Seller Found Liable for Hiding Mold
This is one of those stories that is surprisingly not too common. Christopher Geary (formerly with Koeller, Nebeker, Carlson & Haluck, LLP), from Construction Litigation Law Blog, points us to a recent case ruling in Connecticut that is worth noting. The summary of this sordid tale goes as follows - an unscrupulous seller put in [...]
15 September 2007 | Construction, Construction Defect, Construction and Law, Experts, Litigation | No Comments
Concrete Progress Made in Ghana
Stephen Kanner, a principal of Kanner Architects in Los Angeles, and his friend Joe Gaddo, an architect based in Ghana, are helping to develop a cement additive that could decrease construction costs there by a one third—no small accomplishment in a country where concrete is the preferred building material and yet few people are able [...]
13 September 2007 | Construction, Green Building | No Comments
Construction Defect Case Frequent Claim
Maybe some of the lawyers in the audience can weigh in on this… It appears that a Federal Court has reinforced the notion that when a manufacturer represents that their product performs a certain way that it should perform in that manner. For example, if a window is represented by the manufacturer to keep water [...]
13 September 2007 | Construction, Construction Defect, Construction and Law, Litigation | No Comments
Wozniak’s New Goal is Efficient Housing
Some of our readers may not be familiar with Steve Wozniak. “Woz”, as he is affectionately referred to, together with Steve Jobs, basically invented the personal computer in the form of a computer company known as Apple Computer in a garage in 1976. Wozniak has since gone on to support various educational and human interest [...]
21 August 2007 | Business, Construction, General, Green Building | No Comments
Big Dig tunnel collapse
Hmmmm…
No doubt: someone was negligent in the collapse of the Big Dig tunnel in Boston that killed one. The Latin phrase res ipsa loquitur comes to mind.
But it’s hard to understand why Massachusetts officials are going after Powers Fasteners, Inc.
Powers received an order for standard-set epoxy to be used in the tunnel ceiling, and sold [...]
14 August 2007 | Construction, Construction Defect, Construction and Law, Litigation | No Comments
The housing boom legacy
This article, while somewhat grim, definitely hits the nail on the head so to speak, about some of coming fallout from the housing boom that seems to be waning. Brad Inman’s article is yet another dissenting opinion from the rhetoric coming from QA/QC firms. Inman instead sees the handwriting on the wall pointing towards a [...]
14 August 2007 | Construction, Construction Defect, Construction and Law | No Comments
