Trustees of Columbia University v. Mitchell/Giurgola Associates
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Ellerin, J.
This action arises out of the construction at Columbia University of the Sherman Fairchild Center for Life Sciences, which was completed in 1977, and involves claimed defects in the exterior “curtain wall” of the building and the tiles attached to that wall. In the summer of 1980, after a tile fell from the wall, Columbia took emergency safety measures and ordered an inspection of the building which revealed not only that the tiles were not properly attached to the wall, but that the entire wall was in imminent danger of collapse. Columbia thereafter engaged…
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