The independent panel reviewing the investigation of San Francisco’s troubled Salesforce Transit Center is tasked with both determining the cause of brittle fractures in two bottom flanges of twin built-up plate girders and assigning responsibility for the fractures, according to Ron Alameida, director of design and construction for the public owner, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority.
At a May 8 meeting of the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District board, TJPA’s Alameida said, “The letter from the mayors [of San Francisco and Oakland] charged the peer review panel with identifying the cause and who might be responsible.”