A $1-billion hospital in Montreal continues to cause headaches for Canadian design-build firm SNC-Lavalin, which has filed suit to recoup hundreds of millions of dollars in added costs the company says it was forced to eat on the project.
The Canadian engineering giant and its project partner, Innisfree, have filed a $256-million lawsuit against McGill University Health Centre and the government of Quebec, arguing the firms are being unfairly forced to pick up the tab for additional work on the hospital, which opened last year. It was built under a public-private-partnership arrangement contracted by the province.