Completion of the over ten thousand square foot addition to Kincardine’s Davidson Centre has been pushed back ten weeks.
The new meeting rooms and fitness centre are now set to be finished in mid-March.
Minor construction errors and problems getting materials are the reason for the setback.
The company supplying the structural steel went bankrupt.
Councillor Guy Anderson says it isn’t all bad news because a new supplier has been found.
Deputy Mayor Laura Haight says the ten week delay isn’t severe, considering a supplier went bankrupt
She says other projects have been delayed for longer periods of time for less serious reasons.
Project Manager Brian Snyder of Ventin Group Architects says bankruptcies aren’t unusual in the construction sub trades.
Crews had to remove extra topsoil from the site, an improperly installed wall had to be re-done, and an access ramp had to be re-sloped.
The topsoil cost twelve thousand dollars to remove, but the other changes were made at no extra cost to the municipality.
Snyder says there were also problems with building the foundation.
He says it wasn’t braced enough because crews were in a hurry to get it ready for the concrete to be poured.
Anderson says finishing the addition on the Davidson Centre could face further delays because crews will now be working during the winter when bad weather might slow things down.
