Developer in Chesapeake, Virginia Ordered to Tear Out Chinese Drywall July 15, 2009

A developer from Chesapeake, Virginia was ordered to remove all drywall made in China from a hotel building that was soon to open.  The decision to have all 100-200 sheets of drywall removed was made by the Chesapeake Board of Building Code Appeals in July. 

“I feel that I was singled out,” developer Dilip Patel says.  “Why haven’t they gone after anyone else?”  Mr. Patel says that he isn’t sure why the city didn’t go after anyone else when there where other projects in Chesapeake being built the Chinese-made drywall.

Between 2006 and 2008 a Norfolk-based supplier, Venture Supply Inc., sold Chinese-made drywall to various builders in the Hampton Roads area. Developer Dilip Patel being one of them.

The Virginian Pilot reported that in May, Mr. Patel was issued a building code violation for using the defective drywall in the Comfort Inn & Suites close to South Military highway and North George Washington Highway.

 

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