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UBC denies its downtown Kelowna campus construction caused full extent of damage to surrounding buildings [Video]

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The University of British Columbia (UBC) has denied causing the full extent of the damage to buildings surrounding its Kelowna, B.C., downtown campus construction site.

The university’s position is laid out in a legal response to a lawsuit filed against it, the City of Kelowna, and other parties involved in the construction project by tenants of a nearby apartment building.

Last spring, the city ordered residents of Hadgraft Wilson Place to relocate after cracks started appearing in their building.

In their lawsuit, tenants Monique Saebels and Megan Beckmann and a company in another building are seeking court certification for a class action lawsuit involving anyone who lived in or did business in the buildings damaged by the construction project.

The lawsuit names UBC Properties Trust, the development company owned by UBC, along with the City of Kelowna and multiple construction and consulting companies associated with building UBC Okanagan’s …

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