“It’s puzzling how two firms can be so different in their conclusions,” said Tim Firestine, the county’s chief administrative officer.
It’s not puzzling at all. Every time that another rock is turned over at the SSTC, there’s another snake. Who knew about “soffit spalling” (“…attributable to voids in the concrete …”) until it appeared in Augustine’s report? “This could pose a local safety hazard and will require inspection of all vulnerable soffit areas, and repairs as appropriate, prior to opening the facility for public use.”
More inspections. More repairs. Not surprising or puzzling at all considering the fact that in addition to the cracks, thin slabs, total lack of expansion joints, exposed reinforcement, missing reinforcement, understrength concrete, design errors, voids in the concrete, etc., there may be, and probably are, even more unknown defects lurking inside the SSTC’s flawed concrete skeleton.
Ask the engineers to certify for the public that the SSTC is safe... and then, read the fine print.
Who in their right mind would put their engineering license on the line by certifying that a genuine lemon is safe?
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