A former construction superintendent at the collapsed Berkman Plaza 2 parking garage said he told his bosses about safety concerns involving the support cables months before the deadly Jacksonville construction accident.
Superintendent, Greg Roberts, said a key project engineer warned Choate Construction that support cables designed to strengthen a beam holding up the garage were “not going to work.”
Willie Edwards III, was killed when the building collapsed Dec. 6 while construction crews poured concrete for the sixth story.
Roberts, who left the project when he was asked to resign in July 2007, said he contacted attorneys representing Edwards’ family “so that everything would come out” about events preceding the collapse.
Choate Construction Co., the company Roberts worked for, said last month that the collapse was caused by design problems that had nothing to do with Choate employees. The company said in a news release that it had hired two forensic engineering firms to analyze the collapse, and both found no wrongdoing by Choate.
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