The Burnaby school board is suing its lead consultant and structural engineer for extra costs and construction delays in the $108-million Burnaby North Secondary School replacement project.

In a notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court last week, the school board claims it has suffered damages at the hands of KMBR Architects Planners Inc. and Fast + Epp Structural Engineers Inc. because of negligence and breach of contract.

Since construction began on the new 1,800-student school, the school board says it has gotten notice of claims from its prime builder, Yellowridge Construction Ltd., for delays and extra costs.

The school board claims KMBR and Fast + Epp are responsible and should have to pay.

KMBR signed an agreement with the school board in October 2018 to become the prime consultant on the project, according to the notice of civil claim.

Under that contract, the company agreed to design the building, coordinate the project and hire the necessary subconsultants, including a structural engineer, the claim says.

The school board claims KMBR and the structural engineer it hired, Fast + Epp, broke that agreement in various ways, including failing to coordinate the design of the project, providing incorrect design details, failing to adequately mitigate design flaws when they came up, failing to ensure the constructability of various components, including the building’s tilt-up concrete panels, and providing slow, incorrect or incomplete responses to requests for information, shop drawing approvals, design alterations, contemplated change orders, change directives and other contract administration.

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