Shangri-La Condo Tower Glass Windows Class Action Lawsuit Overview:
- Who: A civil claim filed by Amos Michelson against KBK No. 11 Ventures Ltd., and 1100 Georgia Partnership and its partners has been certified as a class action lawsuit.
- Why: Michelson claims glass windows installed in Vancouver’s Shangri-La residential condo tower are defective and prone to fogging, leaking and breaking spontaneously.
- Where: The claim was certified as a class action lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court.
A claim involving allegations of defective glass windows at Vancouver’s Shangri-La residential condo tower has been certified as a class action lawsuit.
The complaint filed in the B.C. Supreme Court alleges the glass windows installed in the residential condo tower are prone to fogging, leaking and spontaneously breaking, the Vancouver Sun reports.
The defendants named in the class action lawsuit are KBK No. 11 Ventures Ltd., which legally owns the land the building is built on, and the building’s developer 1100 Georgia Partnership and its partners.
All condo owners in the building will be eligible to participate in the class action lawsuit. The residences are lumped into two strata, one from floors 16 to 43 and the other from floors 44 to 62, the Vancouver Sun reports.
The certification comes following leaked strata minutes where it was acknowledged that the possibility of windows in the building cracking was a “real and unacceptable risk.”
A notice of civil claim was originally filed in December 2015 by condo owner Amos Michelson, who lives in one of the building’s highest floors, the Vancouver Sun reports.
Michelson attempted to amend the claim in September 2021 to expand the class definition and add new claims of negligence though the court ruled at the time that some of the amended claims were an “abuse of process.”
The Shangri-La tower was completed in 2009 and is the largest in Vancouver. It contains some of the most expensive condos in the city and boasts mountain and ocean views and floor-to-ceiling windows, the Vancouver Sun reports.
Issue With Building’s Windows Discussed During 2020 Meeting
The issue with the building’s windows was discussed during a 2020 special general meeting held by the lower floors strata, where it was revealed some windows had already been removed and replaced on nine floors due to their inner panes shattering.
The minutes further alleged that as many as 70% of the windows in the building were breaking “prematurely by decades and reaching just a fraction of their expected lifespan of 40 years,” the Vancouver Sun reports.
The minutes were amended a few months later to leave out the details about the severity of the window concerns and that it could cost as much as $65 million to fix the issue.
In addition to the class action lawsuit, each strata has two individual ongoing legal actions over the window issue, one against the buildings developers, contractors and builders, and another seeking to recover from insurers any costs under warranty, reports the Vancouver Sun.
A separate class action lawsuit involving Vancouver was filed in 2020 by a resident who claimed the city’s police force violated residents’ privacy rights with its use of surveillance units.
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