A few years ago I was involved with a hi-profile project that included structural steel erection of a new parking structure over an existing precast parking structure, which incidently was being used by the public while erection of the new structure took place. During the course of erecting the new structure it was found that the new structure was a non-self supporting requiring either additional interior brace frames or for the floors to be poured in sequence with the erection.
My question is:
This structure was not identified as a non-self supporting structure on the contract drawings, so, if a catastophic incident involving the failure of this steel stucture to support itself during erection occured whose responsibility is it?
This is a real incident.
My question is:
This structure was not identified as a non-self supporting structure on the contract drawings, so, if a catastophic incident involving the failure of this steel stucture to support itself during erection occured whose responsibility is it?
This is a real incident.