Dive summary:
- An Ohio concrete company has gone to court in a bid to get $20 million from a Fluor-led joint venture that is building a waste-handling building at the federal government's Savannah River site in Aiken, S.C.
- Baker Concrete Construction Inc. told a federal court in papers it filed this month that Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC, the joint venture, assured it in 2009 that the vast majority of designs it gave Baker for the 33,000-square-foot structure were ready to build, and Baker won a fixed-price contract for $91.5 million.
- Design changes have been ongoing, however, Baker says, telling a judge that "the design changes began, continuously increased and, to this day, [have] never ceased."
From the article:
Baker claims that "over 98% of all drawings released for solicitation by SRNS were represented to be accurate, significantly complete, sufficient and 'issued for construction.' " ...