Berkeley companies risk losing licences for failing to follow industry guidelines

Companies that worked on construction of the apartment in the US where six students died last year risk losing their licence for failing to follow industry guidelines.

The body which licenses building contractors in California has found that five firms which constructed the Library Gardens building in Berkeley performed inferior work. Five Irish students and a relative died there last summer when a balcony collapsed,

A nine-month investigation by the Constructors State Licence Board (CSLB) has criticised the work carried out by the general contractor as well as subcontractors involved in the framing, plastering and waterproofing of the apartment as well as a supplier of ventilation equipment.