Warning: Falling window parts! Wearing Hard Hats at Lanikea?

At the end of January Lanikea residents started to report falling small window parts (metal strips) which landed on the top level of the parking garage (P5, south side of the building). The parts hit the roof of the carports, then sometimes bounce and land on the garage floor. Luckily no injuries or property damage has been reported.

Mr. McCluskey, Lanikea's new General Manager had informed Lanikea's Board of Directors and Hawaii First Property Management. Apparently the window elements which have been falling off are coming from units 02, 03 (middle units) and they are decorative window muntins, which were glued to the inside and outside of the windows when the project was built.

Lanikea's Board has been working on addressing this issue but the problem is complex. According to Lanikea's condo documents, windows are the sole property and responsibility of individual unit owners, not Association's. To me that's a very bizarre provision, as all walls are responsibility of the Association, and a window is certainly a part of a wall as it is permanently affixed to it.

Representative of Lanikea's Board of Directors, Lanikea General Manager, Lanikea's Attorney (Law Offices of Porter, Tom, Quitiquit, Chee & Watts), Hawaii First (property management), A&B (developer), Swinerton Builders (original builder), Architects Hawaii (original architect), and Kalu Glass (original window installers) all came to Lanikea and inspected the detached window parts. They also went to one of the affected units and inspected its windows. They are all working on addressing this issue and hopefully a resolution will come soon.

In the meantime, a Notice from Hawaii First Property Management was posted in Lanikea elevators warning people who are parking on P5 to "use caution when walking to and from the P5A level." I wonder, what that means? how is the caution supposed to be exercised? by looking up while walking? wearing hard hats?

Obviously if a metal object falls down from a high rise building and hits a person (or a car), it can cause a serious, if not fatal, injury and/or damage. In my view, the P5 parking area should be completely off limits until it is safe again.