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Paving quality rejected; airport to withhold $133,000 and consider liquidated damages
Summary
Deliveries of an incorrect asphalt mix led staff to reject paving work, prompting the airport to withhold $133,000 from the prime contractor's payment and consider liquidated-damages for an 11-day schedule overrun.
The Grand County Airport Board heard that trucks delivering asphalt this week did not match the submitted mix design and were rejected on site, prompting the airport to pause paving work and withhold payment.
"What showed up in the trucks today was not what was designed, and it was ... not accepted," said Jud Hill, an engineer working on the project. Hill told the board the contractor consolidated two planned lifts into a single production day, which altered the payment computations and left material at the low end of acceptable tolerances. He said the airport would be deducting $133,000 from the payment to TSJ and that liquidated damages written into the contract would be pursued if delays continued.
The Director said the contractor had been "completely on schedule" until the paving phase, and that the prime contractor’s subcontractor and payment chain (Legrand → TSJ → county processing) complicate how deductions and damages are passed through. Board members were told the contractor is about 11 days over schedule and that the airport had tried to be accommodating because TSJ "has been great," but that the county would now enforce contract provisions.
The board was told the project team prefers re-starting paving in two lifts (each compacted and tested separately) to preserve pavement quality. Engineer Jud Hill said crews planned to resume with a standalone first lift the next morning and a second lift the following day, aiming to reopen the area within several days.
