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| Construx, Issue No. 1 |
October 1999
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The Contractors Critic
Construx Reporting on Safety, Productivity, and Honesty in the Construction Industry.
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Construx Sued in Illinois
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MAY 1999 NEWS FLASH!! OSHA FINES CONSTRUX
$2450 FOR TWO SERIOUS VIOLATIONS -- SEE Litigation
| Big Mike Suhadolnik, a
six foot-four-inch weightlifter, has muscled to the top of the
commercial/residential construction industry in Central Illinois. His company,
Construx, builds about 100 homes annually. A skull and crossbones flag flies
above his company headquarters. Suhadolnik built his company with a two-fisted
approach, and one published account described him as "stubborn as an ass." He
also owns Crazy Horse Concrete, Superior Walls of Illinois, and a host of design
and construction related firms.
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Did Construx perform
shoddy work in Illinois? |
But Big Mike’s forceful approach doesn’t suit everyone. He has been mired in
as many as seventeen law suits, which are recounted inside. Some of the suits
charge that his company, Construx, performed shoddy work. And in the middle of
some of these law suits, he has fired his own law firms, and one of his other
firms was accused of filing motions solely to harass the other parties.
Big Mike may not even fear the devil. He has been involved in at least three
construction disputes and court suits with churches or regarding church
construction projects.
Not everyone slinks away meekly when Big Mike pushes hard. On July 8, 1999,
Superior Walls of Illinois, a Suhadolnik-owned company fired Lewis Angeli, a
carpenter. Angeli says they refused to tell him why he was fired, and did not
give him his last paycheck. Angeli then took his sledge hammer and began tearing
up the floors in a house at the Cedar Cover subdivision where he had laid the
floor just the day before. The episode ended when the Bartonville, Illinois,
police arrested Angeli. | | | | |
As of publication,
Construx
has not made
any suggestions or refuted any of the information in this publication.
  
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