The engineering firm tasked with designing former President Barack Obama’s presidential library has been hit with a $40 million lawsuit from a Chicago-based subcontractor alleging racial discrimination, the Chicago Tribune reported.

II in One Concrete, which is part of the Concrete Collective, a joint venture on the project that includes Trice Construction Co. and W.E. O’Neill Construction Co., was hired as a subcontractor by Thornton Tomasetti, which is providing structural engineering and protective design services for the Obama Presidential Center.

Robert McGee, one of the owners of the Chicago-based Black-owned company sued New York-based Thornton Tomasetti in federal court earlier this month, seeking to be compensated for roughly $40 million in construction costs the local company covered itself along with its joint venture partners.

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