Roof work starts on Kaiserslautern Military Community Center

[unhappycamper]

A construction worker from the contractor Lanzenstiel transports tar used to seal the membrane on a portion of the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center roof Tuesday at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Phase 1 of a four-step plan to fix the poorly constructed roof is under way.


Roof work starts on Kaiserslautern Military Community Center
By Scott Schonauer, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, April 2, 2008

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — Construction crews arrived in full force on Tuesday, ripping up and repairing a key piece of the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center: the mall-hotel project’s leaky roof.

Using everything from blow torches to shovels, workers began digging into a job that Air Force officials admit will be tough, labor-intensive and critically important to finishing the troubled project by the end of the year.

The 844,000-square-foot building is already more than a year behind schedule, largely because of the faulty roof.

“It’s not particularly technically challenging right now at this portion of the demolition,” said Col. Dave Reynolds, the KMCC resident project director. “It’s labor-intensive because it’s just manpower.”

Workers pried, chipped and shoveled old bits of the roof with power tools in sections. When they finished removing the old roof, they coated the top with an adhesive to seal the roof and prevent leaks.


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[DrDan]

1. this is such a debacle . . . I wonder who is pocketing the millions in profit . . .