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Article: Boston's Big Dig Lacks Key Overseer; Quality Assurance Job Was Cut in 1999.
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- January 30, 2002
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By Raphael Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 30--The consultant managing the $14.5 billion Big Dig, under fire recently for faulty construction and lagging repairs, has operated for nearly three years without a state engineer overseeing its quality assurance program.
The quality assurance coordinator's position, which pays between $68,000 and $88,000 annually, was cut for "cost-savings purposes," Big Dig spokesman Sean O'Neill said, in April 1999 amid widespread job cuts by former Big Dig chief James J. Kerasiotes.
But with project consultant Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff facing criticism for allegedly failing ...