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Podcast: GBA Podcast
Episode: #45 - Case History - Small Projects Can Create Big Risk...Yet Again, and Again and Again...
Description: GBA Case History Series – Case History #45 - Small Projects Can Create Big Risk...Yet Again, and Again and Again...
Summary
A GBA Member Firm performed an environmental site assessment (ESA) for a commercial real estate developer. After the Member Firm reported the laboratory tests, which indicated unacceptable levels of a contaminant, the prospective purchaser reneged and demanded a return of its deposit. After getting a second ESA from another laboratory, the Member Firm reviewed the second laboratory’s results and agreed that the initial lab did not record the results correctly, and the contamination levels were...