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Administrative Services: design flaws halted construction; insurance settlement will fund fixes, completion eyed for 2027
Summary
Commissioner Charlie Arlinghaus told the Fiscal Committee that testing found design errors on a major construction project, work stopped on the affected portion, and an insurance settlement for the engineers will help fund remedial design work. Officials said test piles will resume soon and a 2027 completion is projected.
Charlie Arlinghaus, the commissioner of the Department of Administrative Services, told the Fiscal Committee that testing on a large state construction project uncovered design errors and concrete issues that required work to stop on a major portion of the site.
"We did a lot of testing ... and found design errors and design flaws," Arlinghaus said, describing why the agency paused work on the "hole in the ground" portion of the project to redesign and remediate the problems. He said other parts of the…
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