If you’ve been to Denver International Airport lately, you might have noticed the brand-new tiling that’s part of the Great Hall Project is cracked in many places, and some tiles are held together with nothing but tape.
Airport officials say some of the damage is from construction equipment rolling over the new flooring, and other tiles, they say, may have been cracked by train vibrations or the Zamboni cleaning machine.
But Patricia Watson, a construction management attorney, is convinced the problem is more serious, “It’s actually cracked and failing everywhere,” she says. “You can’t walk through the airport and go 100 feet in any direction and not find grout falling or popping out.”
A frequent flyer, Watson first noticed scuff marks and scratches in the new flooring, “I think it was a terrible choice to put white tile in an airport with glitter in it. It looks filthy all the time.”…