Foulger-Pratt

I hate the audacity of people that negatively review a business… without researching who is actually at fault for something. F-​P was not the company responsible for the DESIGN. It was an architect out of New York, Parson Brinckerhoff, whom made the flawed design.
It is not the responsibility of the General Contractor on ANY project to eat the cost of a design flaw in architectural designs provided by a third party outside of their control.
Try doing that crap to a general contractor renovating your house when you provided the designs for them to complete. They will tell you to go pound sand.

It breaks your heart the way this big company now cries foul and complains that Mommy didn’t keep them from messing up the Silver Spring Transit Center. «We are outraged that Montgomery County expected us to get this complicated project right.» That’s what you hire a big company like F-​P for, isn’t it? Shame on them. It’s all part of an ugly money game, to try to get the County to pay for repairs, since the County is under pressure to open the darn place and, apparently, F-​P is not! But it shows everything that is wrong with the big «job creators:» when the money is coming in, they are happy. When they are expected to behave like professionals (nay, just grownups!), suddenly they were totally helpless and it was all the County’s fault. Disgusting.

This company was contracted to build a simple transit center in Silver Spring. Construction began in 2007. It is now 2013. It should not take over seven years to build a parking structure. To add to that, it should not take over seven years to build something that is not structurally safe at the cost of over $ 100 million.
This building is an eyesore and a huge problem for downtown Silver Spring as it is wasted space. No one can use it. I mean, even if Montgomery County commissioned a sculpture made entirely from shit, citizens could at least be thankful for high-​concept art. Here, we’ve got nothing… The only logical reaction to the Silver Spring Transit Center is saying to yourself, «I did not know a concrete building was capable of rotting from the inside-​out, much like an elderly, gassy dog.»
The worst part about this debacle is that WMATA, the transit agency who would actually take control of the facility states that the building is not up to their standards. To put that into perspective, WMATA thinks it is acceptable to let people who are high operate their vehicles and oversee safety! An entity who sets the bar notoriously low does not find this building up to snuff!
Foulger-​Pratt built this pile of organized rubble, but has not taken any responsibility for its faults. I wouldn’t trust this company as far as I could throw it.