埃德蒙顿（Edmonton）的两个问题桥梁替换项目的项目团队将大部分困扰置于他们的身后 - 如果不排除民事法院的旅行，并排除了可新利18备用网址能的后期罚款。
The key steel erection subcontractor on the bigger of the two important public works projects, the 206-meter-long, $155-million Walterdale Bridge, is seeking $12.2 million in payments and damages from joint-venture general contractor Acciona/Pacer. In a lawsuit filed in March in the Court of the Queen’s Bench in Edmonton, the steel-erection subcontractor, Winnipeg-based Capitol Steel, claims Acciona/Pacer required it to work with defectively fabricated steel and implement improper repair procedures. Ultimately, the general contractor brought in another steel fabricator-erector to make the repairs.
Scheduled to go into service this fall, the project will miss its contracted completion date by about a year. Acciona/Pacer, which consists of Spain-based Acciona S.A. and Calgary, Alberta-based Pacer Corp., faces a late-completion penalty of $10,000 a day, up to $5 million.
The timetable for building the new Walterdale Bridge, which will replace a 103-year-old span,began to unravel last year, when the South Korean steel fabricator, Daewoo, failed to deliver components of the bridge’s arches, deck and other key pieces, according to Canadian sources. When the steel did arrive, numerous problems and flaws came with it, says Capitol Steel’s lawsuit.
Last July, Acciona/Pacer brought in another subcontractor, CentralSteel, to repair the steel structure. Capitol Steel contends that the repair work was subpar, including welds that did not meet “Canadian welding and bridge-construction codes” as well as “bolt-material test reports” that did not meet authorized standards.
Daewoo delivered the final arch sections last October, and the second arch—which rises 177 ft over the North Saskatchewan River—was lifted into place in April. Construction crews are working on the bridge’s deck, say reports from the city of Edmonton.
Acciona/Pacer and the other companies involved in the project could not be reached for comment about the dispute. But in news accounts in Canadian media, Acciona/Pacer has blamed Capitol Steel for many of the problems. In one account of Acciona/ Pacer’s lawsuit filings, the joint venture charged that, in reality, Capitol Steel is responsible for much of the project delay and that the subcontractor “repeatedly altered the repair procedures to increase cost and slow [Capitol Steel’s] proper completion of the repair work,” the CBC reported.
More Public Works Progress
Meanwhile, a deck now covers the girders that frame another delayed Edmonton bridge project, the 102nd Avenue Bridge over Groat Road. The $32-million bridge, which spans 100 m,fell a year behind schedule在去年春天竖起的三重奏3.2m深的小梁部分后。这座城市的道路主管表示，当起重机释放二到横梁被竖起，导致屈曲时，间距括号失败了。钢架承包商至尊钢，埃德蒙顿（Edmonton），去除了梁截面以进行测试，并最终重新校正了测试。
在冬天停止工作一段时间后,Graham, a Calgary-based contractor, and its teammate on the project, AECOM, are on track to finish the bridge by this fall, says an Edmonton project website. The contractors have faced fines of $11,500 per day since the 102nd Avenue Bridge missed the originally scheduled opening last October.
