After $80 million in construction work was done on the Lake Zurich Unit District 95, the taxpayers of the district are waiting to find out whose fault it was that the two new school building and a renovated one could have such serious construction problems to warrant $2.5 million in repairs. 

Currently, the school district is suing multiple parties, including the architects and the company supervising the projects after emergency work was required to prevent one of the schools from sinking and another building’s walls from collapsing.
 

This isn’t the first time that it happens, the Gavin Elementary District 37 four years ago also had structural problems, raising the question of whether the school building inspection laws should be changed. 

Currently, the schools inspect the schools by having a non-certified person, usually a former superintendent, do a walk-through when the building is completed, making it difficult for them to find structural problems on the foundation.

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Who dropped the ball on District 95's new schools?

Roughly five years after they were built, structural problems abound

By Madhu Krishnamurthy | Daily Herald Staff

8/25/2008 12:03 AM