WHO'S WHO (The People)
This HOA President eventually owned four units in the tower.
Who is Reed Alvarez?
This person objected to the retrofit invoice as being massively overblown.
Who is Cam Martinez?
The date the Certificate of Occupancy (Exhibit #7) was issued, marking the end of construction.
What is August 18, 2014?
The East Superior Residential Tower is this many stories high.
What is 30 stories?
The two primary Causes of Action alleged by the Plaintiff HOA.
What are Breach of Contract and Negligence?
This retired City Building Inspector signed the Certificate of Occupancy.
Who is Whitley Carter?
The amount by which HOA owners’ monthly assessments increased for the next 20 years to cover the construction loan for retrofits.
What is more than $765 per month?
The date of the whistleblower memo (Exhibit #1) detailing the potential structural failings.
What is November 19, 2015?
The unique design feature that made the tower vulnerable to quartering winds.
What is the "elevated column" design?
In the construction industry, this is the term for a list of minor deficiencies and items needing fixing after completion.
What is a punch list?
This individual was the Project Manager for Metro Builders and asserted the firm constructed the tower exactly how Apex Structural Engineering wanted it.
Who is Cam Martinez?
The estimated total cost of the structural retrofit, including the expedite differential, listed on Exhibit #10.
What is $22.61 million?
The document filed by Ellie and Karl Boone to formally terminate their lease.
What is the Lease Cancellation (Exhibit #9)?
The preferred, stronger connections originally specified in the plans.
What are welded joints (or welded moment connections)?
This document is used by the plaintiff to start a case.
What is a Complaint?
This plaintiff witness is being paid to testify as an expert structural engineer.
Who is Dr. Rowan Hightower?
According to Reed Alvarez, the property values of the units in the tower dropped by an average of this percentage within weeks of the news about the structural issues spreading.
What is 25%
The title of the paper whose executive summary detailed the danger of quartering winds to the high-rise.
What is Potential Wind Dangers to a 30-Story High-Rise: The Case of Quartering Winds?
The student that did the testing that revealed the alleged defect in the tower construction attended this University.
What is Columbia?
This was issued at the end of construction and Defendants claim it is evidence that the building was suitable for people to live there.
What is a Certificate of Occupancy?
This internal Apex engineer submitted the confidential whistleblower memorandum (Exhibit #1) dated November 19, 2015.
Who is Samuel Greene, P.E.?
This is the amount of money that was charged as an add-on to expedite the retrofit of the tower.
What is $4.15 million?
The date the HOA meeting minutes (Exhibit #8) show residents voted 51% to 49% to initiate the emergency retrofits.
What is March 14, 2016?
The type of wind identified by the student paper and Dr. Hightower as striking a structure at an oblique angle, generating torsional forces and dynamic sway.
What are quartering winds?
This rule states that minor additions of facts by witnesses are allowed only if they can be reasonably inferred and are neutral toward both sides.
What is Unfair Extrapolation?