The project team for an $18-million branch library in Baton Rouge soon will begin a mediation to resolve issues related to the discovery on April 18 that the top chords severed in a pair of cantilevered steel trusses at the building's top level. With the project already deep into its 720-day contract and scheduled to open this year, all work stopped.
For a while the East Baton Rouge parish closed nearby streets because of concern about possible collapse of the structure. The building section has since been shored with jacks.