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from Business in Vancouver Issue 1586

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Defendant Vanwest College Ltd. Plaintiff Su Young Kwon aka Cindy Kwon Claim $53,831 for management and consulting services. Defendants Jago Developments (Westbourne) Inc. and Syncra Construction Corp. Plaintiff Calvin Mikael Garcia dba Real Amigos Painting Claim $53,762 for painting work. Defendants Kentwood Homes Ltd. and Angus Guan Yuan Fu and Pearle Pui Ying Sin Plaintiff Torque & Hammer Pile Driving Ltd. Claim $40,503 for pile driving work; a builders lien. Defendant ITC Residential BC II Inc. Plaintiff Seneca Building Maintenance Ltd. Claim Damages for breach of contract for failure to pay for cleaning work. • WHO ’S G ETT IN G S UED These corporate claims were filed with the BC Supreme Court registry in Vancouver. Information is derived from notices of civil claim. Civil claims have yet to be proven in court. Defendants Bird Design-Build Construction Inc. and Fraser Health Authority Plaintiff Shanahan’s LP Claim $2,565,421 for door supply and installation work; a builders lien. Defendant Trevor Dyck dba Source Forest Products Plaintiff Kootenay Valley Helicopters Ltd. Claim $1,836,354 for debt. Defendants Frontline Machinery Ltd. and DZ Grinders LLC and Caterpillar Inc. and Finning International Inc. Plaintiff GFL Environmental Inc. Claim $1,718,097 for damages arising from a fire caused by defendants’ defective grinder machine. Defendants Priority Medical Imaging Ltd. and Syed Haider and Dawn Haider and Joe Coyle and Tarek Helou and Jeffrey Hagel and Karim Ahamed and Hardeep Singh Basi Plaintiff The Toronto-Dominion Bank Claim $1,472,275 for debt. Defendants Camp Developments Corp. and Aquilini Investment Group Inc. Plaintiff Pitt Meadows Plumbing & Mechanical Systems (2001) Ltd. Claim $392,980 for pre-construction services; a builders lien. Defendants Envoy Construction Services Ltd. and the Board of Education of School District No. 43 (Coquitlam) Plaintiff Pitt Meadows Plumbing & Mechanical Systems (2001) Ltd. Claim $339,833 for plumbing, heating and ventilation work; a builders lien. Defendant Quantum Music Works Inc. Plaintiffs Universal Music MGB NA LLC and Casa Ricordi S.R.L. Claim US$263,627 for a default judgment in a foreign copyright infringement case. Defendant Fraser Valley Parkers Inc. Plaintiff Raiwal Agro Tech Foods Ltd. Claim US$250,831 for blueberries. Defendant Focus Equities Inc. Plaintiff Dead Horse Investments Inc. Claim $250,685 for debt. Defendant Onni Property Management Services Ltd. Plaintiff National Credit Recovery Services Inc. Claim $190,081 for wireless communications services. Defendants Brittania Enterprise Inc. dba Britannia Logistics and Fulfillment and Thien Duy Nguyen Plaintiff BCR Properties Ltd. Claim $184,206 for breach of lease. Defendant MGX Minerals Inc. Plaintiff Michael Frank Claim $135,600 for debt. Defendants Hayat Tire Ltd. and Gul Hayat Plaintiff Royal Bank of Canada Claim $76,106 for debt. Defendant Summit Earthworks Inc. Plaintiff Sunbelt Rentals of Canada Inc. Claim $68,320 for rented equipment that defendant failed to secure from theft. Defendant Chohan Carriers Ltd. Plaintiff Telus Communications Inc. Claim $58,287 for debt. Defendant East Vancouver Brewing Co. Ltd. Plaintiff Factory Brewing Ltd. Claim $55,841 for debt. K biv.com For BIV’s People on the Move, Hats Off, Discipline, Buyer’s Alert and Datebook features, and to view more lawsuits, go online at biv.com. Laws uit of the week Construction company sues City of Richmond over months of delays at firehall construction project Stuart Olson Construction Ltd. is suing the City of Richmond over months of delays at a firehall construction project that allegedly cost the company more than $900,000 as it waited on design drawings that were changed “numerous” times.

Stuart Olson Construction filed a notice of civil claim in BC Supreme Court on March 6, claiming it inked a deal with the city for construction of a new firehall at 6960 Gilbert Road in March 2016. According to the claim, Hughes Condon Marler Architects (HCMA) “was the architect of record retained by the City for the Project responsible for the overall design and design coordination on behalf of the City”; however, the company is not named as a defendant in the l awsuit.

The project, the company claims, was originally set for completion in August 2017. “Stuart Olson planned and scheduled its work and the work of its subcontractors so as to meet the original agreed upon project schedule,” the claim states. “However, because of acts, errors, omissions and negligence of the City and its consultants, including HCMA … the Projects completion was delayed to July 2018.”

Stuart Olson claims HCMA “provided a late and deficient, error-filled and incomplete Design and requested numerous changes to the Design, well beyond what was reasonable and could have been contemplated and planned for by Stuart Olson.”

The changes and “cascading delays” pushed the project back months, the construction firm claims, and “impacted the economic and efficient scheduling of the work.”

In December 2019, Stuart Olson gave the city a claims package detailing 192 days of delays, seeking damages under the contract. But the city responded in February 2020 that the company was entitled to damages for only 23 days of “compensable” delays. The company claims it suffered damages of “no less than $909,400.45, arising from Stuart Olson’s increased costs due to delay and the extended project duration.” M eanwhile, several subcontractors have made claims against the company for increased costs and damages arising from the project changes and delays.

“To date, in breach of the Contract, the City has failed to reimburse, hold harmless and indemnify Stuart Olson for any portion of the Subcontractor Claims,” the lawsuit states.

The construction firm seeks $909,700 in damages for breach of contract and negligence. The allegations have not been tested or proven in court and the City of Richmond had not responded to the claim by press time. Trust Canada’s Business Debt Recovery Pros Most accounts can be recovered without litigation. COLLECT THAT DEBT. DON’T WASTE TIME IN COURT — 1 888 797 7727 | MetCredit.com