Your Special Contractor ® Case in Point: Westfield Shoppingtown Parking Garage Northwest Ohio is notorious for harsh winters that make shoppers think twice about venturing out. To lure folks to their expanding offerings, Westfield Properties, owners of Westfield Shoppingtown Franklin Park, planned a new, three-story parking garage, complete with a snow/ice melt system to ensure comfort, safety and convenience for their shoppers. The structure was based on plans from Westfield’s other locations, none of which were built far enough north to need an ice/snow melt systems. In reviewing the plans, Dunbar realized the thickness of the required concrete slab wouldn’t allow the snow melt system to fit in the ramps. Dunbar identified a number of concerns, alerting Westfield that they could not bu

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