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Originally Posted by Great68

Engineers aren't infalliable, and the checks and balances that should happen can be missed.

We have a good example of a rental building in Langford (Danbrook one) that was constructed in 2018/19.

Apparently the structural engineer was not correctly certified, and the structural design of the building was massively deficient and dangerous to the point that the city of langford pulled the occupancy permit just a few months after the building reached full occupancy. Everyone had to leave.

They only just finished fixing the deficiencies and started re-occupying last year.



https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/sho...ook-one-design

This Plett guy potentially saved a catastrophic incident from happening down the road. It suggests the original engineering company copied Plett's design and he looked into it and found a bunch of issues.

Before Centurion bought Danbrook One in late August 2019, a structural engineer named Leon Plett, who was not associated with the project, became concerned about the structural integrity of the high-rise.

Plett alleged in court that he believed the designs were copied from drawings his firm made for another building in Victoria, but weren’t “properly adapted” to meet the safety requirements of the new building.

Plett was told by one of Sorensen’s partners that they were “confident that the building design met the building code requirements,” had obtained a third-party review, and peer-reviewed it internally, according to civil court documents. Notably, Sorensen declined to provide Plett with further proof to back up their claims. That’s when Plett launched a formal complaint with the EGBC. Plett declined to comment, as he’s currently involved in EGBC’s current investigation into Danbrook One.