Fayetteville City Council voted to accept an independent engineering report. The report said Fire Station No. 4 must be torn down. Applied Building Sciences shared its findings at the Feb. 9 meeting after inspecting the unfinished station.
The report cited “major structural deficiencies” in walls, roof, drainage systems, concrete slabs, welding, and substructure. Engineers discovered pipe stubs that had bent and collapsed. Tests revealed fungal growth on six of eight samples collected from inside.
Steve Moore runs the firm’s Charlotte office. He told council members the defects couldn’t be repaired. “In over 17 years of work in this area, I have never recommended that a partially constructed building be torn down,” Moore said, according to CityView. “However, it is our opinion that the extent, severity, complexity of potential reviews of the identified construction-related issues warrants this recommendation.”…