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Podcast: GBA Podcast
Episode: #108 - Case History - Out of Scope Assistance Causes Problem
Description: GBA Case History Series – Case History #108 - Out of Scope Assistance Causes Problem
Summary
GBA has published over 100 case histories based on real-life events that have happened to geoprofessional firms. This episode in the series explores Case History #108, where a GBA-Member Firm provided suggested changes to a sewer pipe design in order to keep construction moving forward on a five-story senior-living facility. Four years later, swelling clays caused the sewer line to back-up and the lower-level slab began showing heaving related distress. That good deed with other project related complications resulted in a $25 million claim th...