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Food Processing Facility Construction Defect

| By:  Charles E. Whitley, P.E.

EDT was asked to review the construction of a multimillion-dollar addition to a food processing facility and to determine the cause of water penetration through the floors of the facility. The following information is a review of what we found that went wrong, and what we concluded to "solve" this case.

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