MiamiCentral Steel Contractor Sues All Aboard Florida, Station Architect Amid Service Delays

By: Lidia Dinkova

The steel contractor on Brightline’s downtown Miami station claims it’s owed $25.8 million for extra work blamed on on-site issues and incomplete and faulty plans that didn’t comply with state regulations.

ADF International Inc. was hired in 2016 by Suffolk Construction Co. Inc., the MiamiCentral general contractor, to work on Brightline’s private passenger rail station and one of the office buildings in the complex, according to signed agreements.

ADF International, part of the publicly traded Quebec-based ADF Group Inc., is suing Suffolk Construction, project architect and engineer Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP and All Aboard Florida, according to a lawsuit filed Nov. 21…