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Cowboys facility builder had 3 others collapse

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05:43 AM ET 05.07 | The company that built the collapsed Dallas Cowboys' training facility also manufactured at least three other buildings that have fallen in heavy weather since 2002, according to court records. The other tentlike facilities manufactured by Allentown, Pa.-based Summit Structures LLC or its related company, Cover-All Building Systems, were warehouse-type buildings in Philadelphia and upstate New York and an indoor arena for horse competition in Oregon. All the buildings fell in conditions that included heavy snow, according to records and interviews. Beth Hungiville, executive director of the Lightweight Structures Association, said four of the membrane-style buildings collapsing in seven years is far from normal. "That is certainly very unusual," she said. "You would not usually find that many failures in that short a time." Hungiville said her organization, an industry group, was aware of the Philadelphia collapse, which occurred just four months before work began on the Cowboys' facility, but did not know about the others until the last few days. The other accidents likely didn't attract widespread attention before the failure of the Cowboys' structure because they didn't involve injuries, she said.

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