Balfour Beatty Revives Contract Dispute With GSA on Appeal

Balfour Beatty Construction LLC won a second chance to recover increased costs it allegedly incurred while working on a construction project for the federal government, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals wrongly determined that Balfour’s contract with the General Services Administration didn’t included an implied warranty for one of Balfour’s design defect claims, Judge Todd M. Hughes wrote in an opinion for the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit partially reversing the board’s ruling.

The GSA in 2016 began soliciting proposals for the construction of phase two for the central utilities plant ...