Mobil: we take no responsibility for skyscraper
7 December 2010 (17:55)
UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2010. ZAO Mobil, one of the contractors involved in the construction of Vysotsky skyscraper (part of Antey Business Center), declared it is no longer responsible for the building’s future fate.
‘Our company has been providing the window panes for Antey since 2007. The most advanced technologies were employed in the process, for example, we even handled large 800kg window pane sets. Over the time, the customer came to owe us 20 million RUR altogether, and we decided to sign a debt-settling agreement with the customer at the final stage. However, when the agreement was first mentioned, the site security guards just did not let our workers enter the place in October. As a result, all the jobs were left unfinished and some other workers are busy there, and no one can say for sure what kind of a job they will do in the end. This is why we must state that we can no longer assume responsibility for the future operation and maintenance of the building. Rostechnadzor and the other surveillance authorities have been notified of this,’ ZAO Mobil’s Managing Director Alexei Surovnev told UrBC.
In fact, the Ural division of Rostechnadzor (the state technological safety watchdog) did receive a letter from ZAO Mobil that called for an investigation of the construction process.
The former contractor claims the finishing jobs are being done by an unlicensed company.
The director reports he’s tried to contact the customer representatives as well as the business center’s owner Andrei Gavrilovsky a number of times, but no explanations as to why his company was not allowed to finish the job have been provided so far.
‘Some of the window panes were actually damaged in the course of other operations. These panes have to be replaced as the damaged structures will be destroyed by wind later,’ Surovnev explained.
‘Our goal is not to make a scandal and have an argument with someone; what matters to us is commissioning a secure object. We’ll keep trying to make things clear; I’d like to hope the building will be fine and nothing will happen to it. We have been on the market for twenty years now and are a member of a construction union (which will have to be responsible for our actions if something happens). We do not insist on the immediate debt payoff; in fact, we are willing to make do with a payment schedule or payment by installments,’ he added.
‘Our company has been providing the window panes for Antey since 2007. The most advanced technologies were employed in the process, for example, we even handled large 800kg window pane sets. Over the time, the customer came to owe us 20 million RUR altogether, and we decided to sign a debt-settling agreement with the customer at the final stage. However, when the agreement was first mentioned, the site security guards just did not let our workers enter the place in October. As a result, all the jobs were left unfinished and some other workers are busy there, and no one can say for sure what kind of a job they will do in the end. This is why we must state that we can no longer assume responsibility for the future operation and maintenance of the building. Rostechnadzor and the other surveillance authorities have been notified of this,’ ZAO Mobil’s Managing Director Alexei Surovnev told UrBC.
In fact, the Ural division of Rostechnadzor (the state technological safety watchdog) did receive a letter from ZAO Mobil that called for an investigation of the construction process.
The former contractor claims the finishing jobs are being done by an unlicensed company.
The director reports he’s tried to contact the customer representatives as well as the business center’s owner Andrei Gavrilovsky a number of times, but no explanations as to why his company was not allowed to finish the job have been provided so far.
‘Some of the window panes were actually damaged in the course of other operations. These panes have to be replaced as the damaged structures will be destroyed by wind later,’ Surovnev explained.
‘Our goal is not to make a scandal and have an argument with someone; what matters to us is commissioning a secure object. We’ll keep trying to make things clear; I’d like to hope the building will be fine and nothing will happen to it. We have been on the market for twenty years now and are a member of a construction union (which will have to be responsible for our actions if something happens). We do not insist on the immediate debt payoff; in fact, we are willing to make do with a payment schedule or payment by installments,’ he added.
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