In the early 1990s Barry Herbert, then president of Otsego, Mich.,-based concrete contractor Herbert Construction Co., learned an alternative method for forming footings. Barry spoke with Ron Colvin, ...

The goof is not expected to cost the county money or delay the Nov. 28, 1988, finishing date, a month before the first conventioneers arrive. Six hunks of concrete — called footings — that are ...