Comment 38651

By highwater (registered) | Posted March 11, 2010 at 11:24:07

Go look at the disgusting exterior of city hall for one of many examples of this. Instead of spending the extra $2 million on decent limestone siding, we decided to save it as a kickback to the contractor upon the job being completed.

The seat of government in Hamilton and our most iconic public building ends up looking like crap so a few folks can jam their bank accounts with our money.

I have to quibble with this. The construction consortium wanted limestone as it is a far superior building material. I don't know much about this consortium, but I think the fact that they supported limestone when they stood to benefit financially from concrete speaks well for their integrity and pride of workmanship. This makes Ferguson's decision to go against the best advice of the general contractor all the more reprehensible and self-serving.

Everything else is dead on.

Go take the Spec poll:

http://thespec.com/

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