SALEM, OR-The 125,000-sf State Emergency Coordination Facility Armed Forces Reserve Center may open this fall after some additional seismic bracing, but a $4 million lawsuit over the $14-million project will likely drag on for years to come.

The Oregon Military Department, which has purview over the project, fired McCarthy Building Cos., the nation’s largest builder, on July 19, going so far as to have police escort the company’s employees and subcontractors off the site without their computers, tools and equipment.

The OMD claims the St. Louis-based company, among other things, did adequately brace some smaller HVAC ducting and plumbing piping as required by the contract and, when asked to do so at no extra charge, declined, thus prompting its firing.

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