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Happened during PCB removal project
By the Journal-Opinion
The lobby roof at Hardwick Elementary School started sagging last week after vertical supports were severed during work to clear the school of PCB chemicals.
The Hardwick Gazette reports that three wooden columns were installed as temporary supports to prop up the sagging roof.
The work is intended to remove window and door caulking with high levels of PCBs from eight classrooms.
“Workers at the school had been removing windows in the classrooms, where instructions were to cut the vertical dividers between them, which were not structural. … Three vertical supports between the lobby windows and doors were structural and were not to have been removed, but portions of all three were not in place Wednesday morning before 9:30 a.m.”
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Categories: Education
They must have consulted engineers, and they did not consider this ?
Hi Patrick,
Like you, I have so ………………. many questions!
Since a Town School Building is a Commercial Building, where are the VT State Building Officials?
Let’s hope the Contractor has Liability and/or Performance Insurance?
Analogy for the current general state of things
and some folks on the left are complaining about a celebration of “good genes”…
A merit-based society is the solution to this problem.
These guys are contractors working on public buildings and they can’t tell a support beam or wall!!! God help us!!! Even a laborer should have picked up on hat and said something “Like hey boss, isn’t that a support beam/wall”!!!
Need to build a new school and keep bonding more debt.
And people will fall for it too! We could just replace the beams, but why miss the opportunity to spend more money and take on more debt.
Here’s your sign.
My favorite Reply🤣🤣🤣
Maybe they should have rented a sky hook.
What evidence was there that these PCB’s were harming anyone?
Is this like the California standards that claim everything is cancer-causing? Recalling what the cost to remove sealed asbestos pipes ran us. Or the solid panels for asbestos siding that had to be surgically removed and contained, lest someone run them through a woodchipper and snort them. Oh, for the good ‘ol days of Tide Pods ….
Just like in Newport where the city officials brainstormed missing money and came up with a unique idea… raise utility rates but not press charges against anyone involved.