THE PROBLEMS

The 1,012 report pages reviewed by the Citizen largely chronicle minor construction errors.

• There were broken anchor bolts on an overhead wire pole in a yard at the maintenance and storage facility. They were struck by heavy machinery in several locations.

• In a report considered “major,” an inspector found a duct bank wall poured in the wrong location at the maintenance and storage facility. It had to be demolished and relocated.

• At the maintenance and storage building, an inspector found an improper installation of gas line entry points on the roof and damage on the waterproof membrane. Even the remedial work wasn’t acceptable, prompting the inspector to suggest a third-party roofing inspection. “Quality of workmanship would be the main deficiency in this case,” the report said. Other times, inspectors flagged the aesthetics of completed work:

• A finished concrete slab on the maintenance and storage facility connector line was found to have boot and equipment indentations. Workers should be careful walking around freshly poured concrete and not use a wet concrete surface, the inspector suggested. Some inspections provided lessons for workers to take better precautions:

• When four vertical bars were bent by moving equipment at Hurdman station, an inspector suggesting using traffic and safety cones around structures for temporary protection.

• There were weld failures at the maintenance and storage facility yard, with the constructor’s inspector calling a subcontractor’s inability to get it right “unacceptable.”

•Workers were found using inappropriate wooden spacers in the walls at Rideau station. Lack of training was listed as one of the root causes.