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Podcast: GBA Podcast
Episode: #105 - Case History - Friends Don't Sue Friends….Most of the Time
Description: GBA Case History Series – Case History #105 - Friends don't sue Friends….Most of the Time
Summary
A GBA member-Firm was hired to perform a geotechnical engineering study of the project site and provide a written report describing its subsurface conditions. This same fir provided construction materials engineering and testing (CoMET) during site development and construction of a mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) wall. Failed communication between the field representative, member firm's project manager and the design team during construction of a MSE wall led to cracks in the building slab and in the wall blocks and ulti...