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Article: BIG DIG LACKS KEY STATE OVERSEER QUALITY ASSURANCE JOB WAS CUT IN 1999
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2002
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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 to find and order repairs of flaws in
the Ted Williams Tunnel ventilation system and on guard rails on
Leverett Circle Connector ...