Posted on 02/18/2020 8:59:25 PM PST by texas booster
Some of the New Orleans city building inspectors who signed off at key points of the construction of the Hard Rock Hotel before it pancaked and collapsed on Oct. 12, killing three laborers, do not appear to have been properly certified for the work, records show.
One inspector, Bryan Cowart, appears to be certified only for residential inspections. Inspector Julie Tweeter, whose whereabouts during inspections she claimed to have completed at the Hard Rock on several days last year are now under investigation, did not receive her commercial building inspectors license until July 2018. By then, shed signed off on at least four early inspections at the Hard Rock site, city records show.
All building inspector certifications are granted by the International Code Council, which limits residential inspectors to reviewing one- and two-family dwellings, townhomes and other buildings three stories in height or less.
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The MCC (Metropolitan Crime Commission) blew the whistle in 2013 on a state fire marshals inspector, Nunzio Marchiafava, in a case with striking similarities. Marchiafava had allegedly lied about inspecting a Grand Isle motel where two people died in a fire, then fudged records to cover his tracks.
An investigation by the state Office of Inspector General which likewise involved location data, though they were from Marchiafavas phone led to his conviction on a charge of attempting to injure public records. He received a year of probation.
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It doesnt sound right. But my husband put out a general search for certain jobs he was qualified for after an early retirement and this one showed up.
Probably. Maybe have several titles to add up a to a nice salary.
Oh I just meant you had heard tell of him. Not that you had any onsite failures. And, please take this as a compliment, to me this means you are very hands on and have good crews. So stuff is checked and rechecked before the inspection is called in. You would be surprised how often that does not happen.
Thank you. Yes I’m a mother hen. I train my guys personally and keep a close eye. Certainly not what you would call a “checkbook builder”.
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