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Best Under the Sun Nominations Being Accepted!
Submission Deadline: March 29, 2019
At the annual Construction Executive of the
Year dinner on May 3, 2019, we will be honoring two outstanding members of
our chapter - one general member and one associate member.
Please send your nominations to Michelle
Walker by March 29, 2019 for a member that you think deserves this
recognition.
Note: Prior recipients are not eligible
to win, please see a list of prior winners here: http://vos.cfma.org/events/ceoybanquet/eoyprev
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The VA’s billion dollar boondoggle
A long-planned Veterans Affairs hospital being built in Denver, already hundreds of millions of dollars over its $604 million budget, has turned into a billion-dollar boondoggle for the agency. The contractor, Kiewit-Turner, blames the VA for ignoring agreements to submit plans that can be built within budget and has asked a federal board overseeing civilian contract disputes to let the company walk away from the job. Problems with the building emerged in January, when letters between the builder and the VA revealed the project to be running some $200 million over budget, with Kiewit-Turner blaming a pricey design that was only partially completed by the time it entered into the contract. The two sides subsequently agreed — via a handwritten agreement — to build the hospital within the original budget, with the VA in charge of submitting a new, pared-down design reflecting a number of cost-saving measures. But in a July 8 complaint to the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals,
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