Dive summary:

• Kiewit-Turner (KT) is arguing that the Department of Veterans Affairs did not keep an agreement to rein in design for as $640 million hospital complex in Denver and the cost will now hit $1 billion – money the VA will not have – so the partnership wants to wash its hands of the project.
• The VA says it does not buy the $1 billion figure and insists that as part of the agreement for integrated project delivery, KT had input and did not point out problems with the design, so it ought to have to finish for $640 million.
• KT has taken the matter to a civilian appeals board, and the whole dispute sounds a bit like a VA-contract battle over a Florida hospital project.

From the article:

While insisting the project could not cost more than $604 million, the department failed to do anything to make the designers revise the design to cut the costs, Kiewit-Turner argues.  ...