Though the construction was
filled with structural errors, we lost the Arbitration with the
Contractor. Unknown to all the Nuns, he used the known
defective plans against orders rather than wait for the
revisions of the new Engineer hired by the Nuns. Thus he
built the whole structure on change orders, which annulled the
contracts with the subs; prices soared.
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Again the Contractor did not wait for the Engineer, but
continued to use the known defective and forbidden plans. He had the new
Engineer follow him with structural band-aids...saying 'the Nuns did not want
to stop'. The Contractor won the arbitration, blaming us for giving
him the defective plans. That the Contractor built the whole building
on retrofit, this is something we never gave permission for. Permission
was only given to retrofit what the Inspector had originally found defective.
We never give permission for future retrofit of the whole of the unfinished
building. The Contractor continued retrofit even after the Nuns ran out
of money for he had been told the whole building could collapse. It is
that he sued us for. All our other bills were paid save for some detentions.
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Most of the Nuns transferred to
other Carmelite Communities but a few petitioned Rome in their desire to ultimately
found a house of Divine Mercy when God should clear the way. The Corporation’s
name was changed to
DIVINE MERCY INC., and its present membership
consists of Religious and Christian lay
persons dedicated to serving the
Lord with all their heart and of kindling this fire of love in the hearts of
all mankind. |
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