Challenge Overview
YA Group was asked to investigate reported deficient and defective work at a Southwestern U.S. construction site. The law firm and the client asked that YA dispatch our technical resources to the site as soon as humanly possible. The subject property is a multi-story addition on the healthcare campus of one of the nation’s leading private hospitals, and the legal team requested a full inspection and thorough review of construction to date.
YA Group’s Area of Impact
Initiating a document review electronically and deploying to the scene immediately, YA’s forensic construction and engineering experts could hardly believe the state of ill health they uncovered. While most of our technical experts possess daily, real-world construction experience, and are, therefore, relatively stoic in most matters, this entire expansion effort stood as a testament to the pervasiveness of shoddy workmanship. Examples of components and systems that were improperly installed and did not meet the standard of care: insufficient structural engineering, incorrect grading/hardscaping, the wrong electrical/communication cabling, and inadequate building envelope systems, including incorrectly installed and flashed windows.
YA’s inspection and final report confirmed what the legal team and the client had suspected: that the general contractor was in the process of performing work completely inconsistent with what had been precisely stipulated in the contract documents, in the plans and in the drawings. In addition to pinpointing the items that fell beneath the standard of care and proposing cost-effective remediation techniques, YA’s experts facilitated the resolve of all pending litigation, working diplomatically with all the various subcontractors, vendors and all associated counsel.
