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Watonwan County Human Services Building
Project Information
- Project Location:
- St. James, MN
- Status:
- Completed
- Structure Type:
- Office Building
Scope Of Work
The 18,000 sf Human s Building was built less than 10 years ago. In the winter of 2012/2013 the building was deflecting and leaking so bad the County moved everyone out of the building on Presidents Day - February 18, 2013. There was talk about tearing the building down! What to do?
In the summer of 2013 with limited progress made on the building, Buetow Architects recommended Doc Smith of EDS Builders to Don Kuhlman, the county auditor, to review the issues and look at the building.
EDS Builders observations: After understanding the issues and walking the building I observed many defects that were fixable. We discussed the options to fix the building for around $800,000.00 or tear down the building and build a new 3.5 million building. Fix the Building was the marching orders.
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