Daniel Kodsi, the CEO of Royal Palm Cos., said workers had to stop pouring slabs of the tower because the penetrators for plumbing and electrical were in the wrong place. Several years ago, the developer changed the uses on some floors from condo to hotel and then to office, but the penetration shafts in the design of the slabs were not updated to reflect that.
As a result, it will need to create penetration elsewhere in the slabs, which will require additional approvals from the city’s fire department over fire safety issues, Kodsi said. Those approvals could take two or three weeks, he added.
“Once you change one thing, it was like a domino effect,” Kodsi said. “It’s not that I blame anyone. It was because we changed uses a couple times.”
“I’m glad we caught it now or it would have been a real disaster,” Kodsi said. "If we wouldn’t have found this out until later, when the electrical and plumbing started going in, it would have been a much bigger problem.”
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