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New central library behind schedule after cracks discovered in truss

Construction of the $245-million, new downtown central library is running six weeks behind schedule after crews discovered a defective steel truss.

“Micro cracks” were detected on the steel prior to delivery, according to a 15-page report from the city auditor’s office, scheduled to go before the audit committee on Thursday.

The defective piece could not be fixed and had to be re-fabricated.

“The time it took to detect the problem, consider the options, develop a solution and re-fabricate the steel was initially estimated by the project management team to have delayed the expected occupancy permit by six-weeks,” states the report.

The document says the project management team will know in April how the delay will affect the overall timeline.

Calgary Municipal Land Corp. is overseeing the new library, which was scheduled to open in the last quarter of 2018. Construction began on the 240,000-square-foot facility in the fall of 2015.

Susan Veres, a spokeswoman for CMLC, said the library is still on track to open in late 2018, despite the truss issue.

“They caught it. That’s what you have quality control folks for. In a big project like this, you need checks and balances,” she said. 

The truss troubles for the new library come after the city discovered in September a 33-year-old structural truss in the Calgary Municipal Building didn’t meet safety codes.

aklingbeil@postmedia.com

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