Calgary company out $280k after work on former Kensington Manor building
A local restoration company says it’s out hundreds of thousands of dollars for work on the former Kensington Manor apartment building.in November 2017 after an inspection found it wasn’t structurally sound.
At the time, people living in the building were told they had to wait until the building was secured before they could collect their belongings inside. According to the Restorers Group Inc., the company was working with the building owners to do some renovation work on the exterior of the building when it was discovered it was unsafe.
“We had a meeting with the consultants and they were asking how we were going to rig the project. We told them the method how we were going to do it — using swing stages — but it entailed putting some weights up on the roof,” Restorers Group owner Charles Doke told Global News. “The engineers thought, ‘We better just confirm that the weights fit fine for the building,’ and then next thing you know, that’s when the building was being evacuated.
Doke said crews worked seven days straight and installed around 2,100 posts to stabilize the building so tenants could remove their belongings.
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