Garage Collapse Contractor Points Finger at Engineer
The contractor cited for safety violations in connection with a mid-construction garage collapse in Jacksonville, Fla. last year blames the failure on poor design.
The pancake-style collapse on December 6, 2007, claimed the life of a laborer and injured 23 others. Atlanta-based Choate Construction Co. hired two forensic engineering firms, Wiss-Janney Elstner Associates, Inc., Atlanta, and Carl Walker of CW Consulting LLC, Kalamazoo, Mich., to review the design for the six-story, post-tensioned concrete garage that accompanies the Berkman Plaza II residential tower.