CHARLESTON --- A Kanawha County hotel owner and tenant are suing an architect design company after faulty designs damaged the hotel property.
E & G Inc. and Capital Hotel Group LLC filed a lawsuit April 4 in Kanawha Circuit Court against Bastian and Harris Architects PLLC and John Harris, citing breach of contract and negligence.
The plaintiffs state they hired the defendants to help with an extensive hotel remodeling project in February 2012 when the facility was being renovated from being a Ramada Inn to a Holiday Inn & Suites. According to the brief, the defendants advised the plaintiffs to use a decorative visual barrier, which they designed, to hide the A/C units on the exterior of the hotel structure.
The suit alleges the installation of the barrier began in March 2012 and in May 2012 the plaintiffs began noticing problems with the A/C unit's operating properly, as a result of insufficient exhaust.
The plaintiffs claim the units began to leak water, damaging the walls.
The plaintiffs are seeking compensation for damages, interest, attorney's fees and court costs. It is being represented by Charleston attorneys John C. Palmer IV and Keith J. George of Robinson and McElwee PLLC and attorney P. Rodney Jackson of the Law Office of P. Rodney Jackson. The case has been to Circuit Judge Jennifer F. Bailey.
Kanawha Circuit Court Case No. 14-C-664
Hotel owner, tenant blame architect for faulty design
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