{"id":715263,"date":"2026-06-04T20:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/715263\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:46:54","slug":"contractor-says-both-government-cancelled-construction-projects-presented-significant-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/715263\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractor says Both Government-Cancelled Construction Projects \u2018Presented Significant Challenges\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/the-former-cna-building-in-stephenville-crossing.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Contractor says Both Government-Cancelled Construction Projects 'Presented Significant Challenges'\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The former CNA building in Stephenville Crossing (Government of NL)<\/p>\n<p>The contractor which was awarded the work in Stephenville Crossing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.nl.ca\/releases\/2025\/ti\/0704n03\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cartwright<\/a> says it was advised verbally of the cancellation yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>The company says while it understand the fiscal pressures facing the province, it has not yet received official written notice of contract termination.<\/p>\n<p>The company acknowledges that both projects presented significant challenges.<\/p>\n<p>JMJ says during construction it learned that the site of the Cartwright school had \u201csubstantial issues that would have required costly remediation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the contractor says the Martin Gallant Building \u201cwas only partially designed at the time of tender,\u201d and that the partial design \u201ccontained inaccuracies\u201d about the existing structure and its capacity to support the proposed renovation.<\/p>\n<p>JMJ hopes \u201cto work constructively\u201d with government to \u201cquickly negotiate a fair financial settlement\u201d for itself and its subcontractors \u201cgiven that the terminations were entirely outside JMJ\u2019s control and had nothing to do\u201d with its role as general contractor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The former CNA building in Stephenville Crossing (Government of NL) The contractor which was awarded the work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-715263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}