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Research

The era-by-era source citations and working analysis behind the Cost of Waiting narrative. Working documents — kept on the site so the analysis survives any one curator and remains available to anyone who wants to verify a claim.

What this is. AI-aided analytical research from the Horizon Towers minutes corpus (board meeting minutes, budget documents, engineering reports, 1992 forward). Quoted passages are direct from minutes; interpretations are working hypotheses backed by the quotes. Curated by Brad Pollard.

Documentary records

The two source narratives that the era audits and synthesis pages back up. Each is a primary-source-cited record on its own track.

The Cladding Record
Building skin, paint, and stucco — 1991 contractor projection through the 2026 SOCOTEC reskin engagement. Anchor for the cladding/EIFS track.
The Cost of Waiting
Garage moisture and structural — what was known and when. Anchor for the moisture/T-beam track that becomes the 2023 Knott FCA.

The four era audits

Year-by-year audit of moisture and structural findings recorded in board minutes.

Era 1 · 1996–2003
Early knowledge of leaks. Patch mentality. The 7-year gap from awareness to comprehensive action.
Era 2 · 2004–2011
Cascade of secondary failures. Budget-driven deferral. Stucco and balconies surface.
Era 3 · 2012–2014
Pre-FCA period. The approach to professional engagement.
Era 4 · 2015–2021
Runway to the October 2023 Knott Labs FCA. COVID disruption. Standing infrastructure problems.

Synthesis & method

Method & Audit Progress
How the corpus was scanned, what was looked for, where the documentation gaps are.
Parallel Tracks
How the leak-history record and the concrete-history record never came together until 2023.
T-Beam Citation Backbone
Every claim from the public pages with its source minute and page citation.