re: $60M Allen football stadium deemed 'not safe,' will close this season

in my seven years with my current company, i've never worked on a hard-bid project... just negotiated (either lump sum or cost plus)... in each case, the Owner has hired the testing agency.

It's usually done before we ever hit the job... whoever does the geotech report (which is generally included in the specs) is usually who ends up doing all the testing -- soil density, concrete, rebar, etc.

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It was voted on by people living in the district, and I'm assuming it was paid for by a local gov bond issuance. If that's what they want to do more power to them.

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exactly right

just a bunch of uninformed, jealous, butthurt douches in here

funny to see Louisiana people saying texas people are idiots. it's not like texas has some of the top public schools in the nation and Louisiana has the worst.

oh wait, it is.

This is a high school football stadium? Ridiculous.

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maybe because they're spending obscene money on football stadiums while laying off teachers for starters?

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I doubt Allen is laying off teachers.

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I have no idea what the means. But again, I would surprised to find out Allen is laying off teachers due to any kind of monetary shortage. Also, most of the money for the stadium likely came from private donations.

LSU is supposedly an academic institution, but no one seems to care about the amount of money blown on athletics here.

Just an FYI. This is a job I bid last week. And all of our work is either negotiated or invited bidders only.

Allen HS may be kind of average for TX but I bet it blows almost all La publics out of the water, with some exceptions. I love Nola but the public schools in La suck for the most part. TX does it better from what I can tell. Even the ghetto people speak so much better than in Nola. It was amazing to hear one sound somewhat educated on the news. It blew my mind.

I grew up in Allen. With the recent development, there isn't much distinction between Plano and Allen. Just one big suburb.

Very odd to see honey combing in mezzanine pan slabs. In 14 years in that industry, I never saw that issue. Usually see this in poured walls and it is more of a cosmetic rather than a structural issue. Just don't see how there is honey combing on a smooth troweled finished slab, or a broom finish for that matter without it being noticed. It's more likely that it's scaling or severe de-lamination to such a degree that it looks like honey combing. That is typically caused by sealing it to soon by the finisher and to much bleed water trapped beneath the surface. But that isn't a structural issue in any case I have been involved with. Must be so bad in spots that it is a structural issue.

You would be surprised though how these issues seem to not affect the GC as much as you would think.

I watched Hardin Const. continue to get major projects both in hard bid and bid list situations after a two year run of bad luck that included:

1. Two workers falling to their deaths down an elevator shaft during construction of Sovereign (high rise in Buckhead)

2. A collapsed parking deck floor in Midtown.(thank goodness nobody died but it crushed some vehicles)

3. Collapse of a pedestrian bridge at the Atlanta Botantical Gardens during construction. It was during a pour and I believe one worker died.

Thought they were done after that one. They seemed to never skip a beat though.