{"id":4894,"date":"2015-03-17T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4894"},"modified":"2016-08-31T17:42:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T17:42:50","slug":"condominium-association-claims-faulty-masonry-work-caused-leaks-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/condominium-association-claims-faulty-masonry-work-caused-leaks-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Condominium Association Claims Faulty Masonry Work Caused Leaks in Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div>Late in 2002, the developer of 1717 S. Prairie Ave. in Chicago, Ill., retained the defendant Hansen &amp; Hempel Co. to complete the masonry work for a 23-story condominium complex. When the building was nearly finished in March 2004, it started to experience water leakage. The condominium association, Board of Directors of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamtown.com\/buildings\/prairie-district-homes.html\">Prairie District Homes <\/a>Tower Condominium Association, hired an engineering firm to design and implement a repair that was estimated to cost over $6,500,000.<\/div>\n<p>Because of the report on the defects to the building, the association filed a lawsuit wherein the case was tried to a jury on the sole issue of breach of implied warranty of habitability.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff board of directors of the condominium association contended that 90% of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copper.org\/applications\/architecture\/arch_dhb\/arch-details\/flashings_copings\/wall_flashing.html\">through-wall flashing<\/a> in dams installed by the defendant masonry company were either missing or installed improperly and claimed that because of those material defects it allowed water to penetrate the inner cavity of the building.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/condominium-association-claims-faulty-masonry-work-caused-leaks-construction\/#more-4894\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late in 2002, the developer of 1717 S. Prairie Ave. in Chicago, Ill., retained the defendant Hansen &amp; Hempel Co. to complete the masonry work for a 23-story condominium complex. When the building was nearly finished in March 2004, it started to experience water leakage. The condominium association, Board of Directors of the Prairie District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,49,134,77,133,83,155,30,11,75,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breach-of-contract","category-business-litigation","category-commercial-litigation","category-construction-contracts","category-contract-litigation","category-corporate-law","category-design-defects","category-experts","category-premises-liability","category-product-defect-litigation","category-real-estate-litigation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Condominium Association Claims Faulty Masonry Work Caused Leaks in Construction &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Late in 2002, the developer of 1717 S. 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