In a federal trial filed earlier this month, one of the main firms involved in the management of Obama’s President’s Center, is charged with a racial discrimination with one of the local subcontinent-owned local subcontinents of the project Does them at risk of $ 40 million in red color and bankruptcy.
But the company in charge of engineering and professional design services for the Center told the finger back, in a memorandum stated that construction costs and delays “all unevenly were inspired by the underperformance and inexperience of that subcontinent, II in II.
Robert McGi, II in, a South Side firm, which provided concrete and ribar services for the center starting in 2021, filed a case on the Thornton Tomasetti in New York in Federal Court earlier this month, which is about $ 40 million. Should be paid for. The local firm covered themselves with its joint venture partners at construction cost.
The thornton tomasetti was convicted for changing standards, stating that the company took “unfair and unpredictable decisions” to implement new rules around ribar vacancy and tolerance requirements, “improper and unpredictable decisions”, “highly rigid and unnecessary inspections” to the company and comprehensive Papered under paperwork. Productivity and resulting in millions of damage. ,
The lawsuit alleged the discrimination of the breed, the engineering company claimed that the minority-owned II for its errors was incorrectly sang, while “was sufficiently eligible to contractors with non-emergency owned contractors,” extreme financial loss and distinguished Disadvantages “Extreme Financial Damage and Reported Damage” for “II for II” for one.
The former president’s name started a year during separate legal challenges for its plans to construct in a public park in the museum premises. The inauguration of the main museum building was pushed back by 2026, while its athletic center is about to open this year. Wall Street Journal reported that Obama’s center set a modern record for the time between the end of a presidential post and the inauguration of a name.
Former President Barack Obama visited the construction site last June for the “Topping of” of the Museum Building, and the Foundation announced a concrete work wrapped in October 2024.
Obama Foundation spokesman Emily Bitter said in an email on Thursday, “If the foundation believes that any seller was working with a racist intention, we will take appropriate action immediately. We have no reason to believe that Thornton Tomasti worked with racist intentions. ,
In one, Attorney for II and solid collective joint venture in which the company is a member rejected the comment.
Representatives of Thornton Tomasti did not immediately respond to the remarks requests.
In a February 2024 memorandum associated with the suit, Thornton Tomasetti shared the images of the torn slab and exposed the Rebar, told the leadership of the Obama Foundation that the concrete collective presented hundreds of requests to fix their work in the area, that Thornton Tom sethi reviewed hundreds of hours. , Analysis, designing and respond to corrective tasks, and contractors caused “a crowd of problems in the field”.
Concrete Collective presented an initial “request for just adjustment” for additional costs to be held in May 2023, but was rejected, the suit claimed, based on “defamation and discriminatory statements” of Thorndon Tomacti . By the time they were finished, the collective claimed that it was about $ 41 million in the work.
Criticism of Thornton Tomasti, suit said, “was” inappropriate “and incorrectly alleged in one of” lack of sufficient qualification “, dozens of high-profile public projects like Millennium Park, McCormic Place, Midway and O’Hae Airports But despite its experience, Wrigley Field, Chicago Riverwalk, Northwestern Hospital and many Chicago Housing Authority buildings.
The suit said that the criticism motivated the Obama Foundation to refuse to cover those additional construction costs, possibly the firm’s owner to search for bankruptcy and close the shop.
The suit claimed that this provision reduced the Obama Foundation’s DEI goals and commitments and missions to bring transformational changes directly into the construction industry and local community. ,
Obama promised to hire firms owned by local workers, contractors and minorities, women, veterans, LGBTQ individuals and people with disabilities.
In 2022, the work on the site was briefly stopped when the authorities reported to find a nose, an incident condemned as a task of hate, but did not arrest. Federal Health and Safety Officers have also been investigating the decline on the site since the beginning of this month.