Plumber sues over subcontract on Joint Force Headquarters

A subcontractor on the Nebraska Army National Guard Joint Forces Headquarters building sued the contractor on the project, Hausmann Construction Inc., for more than a half million dollars this week.

Peak Plumbing, a Wyoming business with its main office in Lincoln, andInternational Fidelity Insurance Company, its surety, allegesin the lawsuit filed in Lancaster County District Court, that Hausmann didn't pay them $534,071 for work they did on the project.

Peak Plumbing and Hausmann originally entered into a subcontract for plumbing services for the project for $1,253,972, later adjusted to $1,390,533 for changes to the scope of work, according to the lawsuit.

IFIC said Hausmann overpaid Peak Plumbing $332,738 prior to Sept. 1, 2011, then caused Peak Plumbing to perform work out of sequence, which led to additional subcontractor costs and overhead at a cost to Peak and IFIC of $319,633.

The additional $214,438 is what IFIC said Hausmann still owed on the adjusted subcontract amount.

Hausmann Construction hasn't yet responded to the suit.

The $22 million, 140,000-square-foot, four-story steel and glass building, which houses the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency, the Nebraska Army and Air National Guard and the Nebraska State Patrol dispatch center, was completed in 2012.

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Plumber sues over subcontract on Joint Force Headquarters