Champlain Bridge update: 'Rigorous oversight' cited after reports of 2,000 repairs

Workers on the construction of the new $4.2-billion Champlain Bridge have already made 2,000 repairs to faulty material used to build the span’s supports, according to a news report Monday.
The report in the Journal de Montréal lists incomplete or missing welds, misaligned holes on steel parts and cracked or porous metal plates as having been detected over the course of construction. Most of the problems are found with support beams from a firm identified in the report as Tecade, wh