With the housing, lack of supervision, at each stage of the job, someone needs to inspect the work, approve acceptable work on the monthly payment requisition, and deduct anything not acceptable or incomplete. You have their money, its your only leverage with a contractor. Its typical to withhold 10% or a bit more off each requisition until such time the job is substantially complete, all work accepted, all punchlist items complete and or all O&M data, attic stock or other specified close out items are provided at the end of the job. That amounts to 10% of the contract value and it is a significant amount to a contractor.
A structural failure due to an omission of a component such as a joist is incompetent/gross negligence. I cannot imagine the claims involved when this happens. I'm sure on the architecturals, wall section details by type of wall and in the specifications there was fastening criteria, contractor omitted fasteners and violated the specs thinking they could get away with it, huge claim potential there, defective work.
I remember Pizzagalli Construction of VT, getting into some serious problems at Ft Bragg, see attached link, that was only part of it, whole list of crap that happens with government contracts, too much to read through but its in their, ENR did more than one article on it. I also remember on one of these projects, domestic water supply piping became energized, causing a fatality, old jobs, but the screw ups are prolific and always stand out in memory. See page 29 on the 2nd link
I thought with manufacturing, the government has rigid specifications, maybe it was poor design, or inferior materials, they always had high quality items in the past. I remember the boots with Goodrich soles, did several 16 mile road marches in those, seemed durable, but would not have been my first choice, having worn other boots. I do remember the large blisters and you had best keep some mole skin in your ruck sack if you wore those and went those distances. That was some miserable crap when you could not get a good fit or what the heck caused blisters, no other boot/shoe I could remember caused that to happen.
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