TROUBLED QNS. COLL. DORM FIRMBy YOAV GONEN, Education Reporter, NY Post
University of Connecticut dormitories built by the contractor tapped to erect a $72 million residence hall at Queens College have been plagued with costly fire and safety violations, The Post has learned.
Seven years after two of its dorms were built by the contractor, Alabama-based Capstone Development Corp., UConn is still bringing the buildings up to code, a university spokeswoman said.
She would not further discuss the trouble-plagued dorms, which were built in 2001 at a cost of nearly $55 million.
UConn was paid at least $1 million under the agreement.
Published records show that engineering consultants hired by UConn in 2004 identified dozens of building and safety-code violations at the dorms.
Queens College officials insisted yesterday that they operated with "due diligence" in selecting Capstone for the 506-bed residence, which is slated to open in August 2009.
Additional reporting by Angela Montefinise and Post Wire Services
3 comments:
"Queens College officials insisted yesterday that they operated with "due diligence" in selecting Capstone for the 506-bed residence, which is slated to open in August 2009."
Perhaps those officials misunderstood and operated with DOO DOO diligence?
Queens College would not discuss
the RFP for the dorm; then they would not talk about the enviro study for the dorm or security for the dorm residents.
We guess they are waiting until they have to sue the developer for building a crappy dorm before they will talk to the community about the dorm.
Capstone already has dorms at CCNY, and as far as I know, there were no problems with the CCNY dorms.
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