A federal court judge in Washington, D.C., has rejected a motion by FIGG Bridge Engineers and W. Denney Pate to temporarily block the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s suspension of both the firm and the engineer from working on projects involving federal funding. The ruling is the latest in FIGG’s fight to avoid a 10-year federal debarment proposed as a result of the firm’s role in the fatal March 2018 bridge collapse at Florida International University in Miami. FIGG says it will continue its fight.
DOT’s Federal Highway Administration had suspended and proposed to debar Pate, FIGG’s engineer-in-charge for the Florida bridge project—and a co-plaintiff in the court action.