Government Can’t Use Contract’s General Disclaimer of Reliance on Site Information to Deny Differing Site Condition Claim (Metcalf v. U.S. precedent)

by | Jul 26, 2017 | differing site conditions, Newsletter Article

By: J. kent Holland, Jr. The U.S. Army denied a differing site condition claim of its contract that allegedly encountered subsurface rock conditions as well as ground water conditions, differing materially from what was represented in a geotechnical report provided to...

Encountering Soil Conditions Differing from data in Government Provided Geotechnical Report Entitled Design-Builder to Differing Site Condition Recovery (ASBCA Decision)

by | Jun 1, 2017 | differing site conditions, Newsletter Article

Geotechnical, Saturated Soil, Geotechnical Report, Metcalf Construction During site excavation, a design-build contractor encountered a large quantity of unsuitable soils, and this required remediation before foundation work could commence for a building. In this...