Construction workers pack up their personal tools Thursday morning at the over-budget Denver VA Medical Replacement Project site near Interstate 225 and East Colfax Avenue in Aurora. The project is currently on hold after a federal board of appeals ruled that the VA had breached its contract. Aurora Congressman Mike Coffman said Colorado delegates were working to keep Kiewit-Turner as the contractor for the hospital so that the 1400 people who were laid off can come back to work. (Marla R. Keown/Aurora Sentinel)

AURORA | The Department of Veterans Affairs is asking the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct an in-depth analysis of the massive VA replacement hospital project in Aurora to determine what caused construction costs to balloon to over $1 billion.

“Today, we are announcing that VA has requested that the Corps complete a detailed examination of the VA major construction program to improve management processes, structures, and controls ‎in project oversight and delivery,” the VA said in a statement Monday.

 “The Department is also convening an Administrative Investigation Board to review all aspects of the Denver project to determine the facts that led to the current situation and gather evidence of any misconduct or mismanagement that contributed to this unacceptable outcome,” the statement continued.

Late last year, the VA and Kiewit-Turner reached an agreement to temporarily resume construction on the hospital while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers negotiates a new contract with Kiewit-Turner to complete the hospital project. The Army Corps has assumed management responsibilities on the Aurora project through its completion.

The statement said that VA Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson was onsite at the Aurora hospital project Monday and will continue to regularly visit the site.

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