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Best Practices – Payment Management – How You Can Manage Construction Payments to Minimize Exposure and Risk.
In other words, they made payments to the contractor without knowing what these payments were for.
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Best Practices – References and background checks – Why Your Cousin’s Best Friend and HomeAdvisor is Not An Effective Substitute for Proper Due Diligence.
Johnson is out $170,000 and has liens from subcontractors that weren’t paid.
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Commentary – Design Build Contracts – Why Architect Led Design Build is Better than Contractor Led Design Build.
As I was moving off of the topic, I was asked to elaborate on why, design professionals are better than GC’s.
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Case Study – Silver Springs Transit Center – How One Procurement Decision Could Have Saved Montgomery County $100M.
The project provided the revitalization it was meant to, but the path it took was fraught with frustration.
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Industry Watch – Blacklists – How the City of Katmandu blacklisted over 100 Contractors and How You Can Too!
These list are unwritten and never published, but this practice is alive and well in construction circles everywhere.
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Definition – Urban Sprawl – What is it and How Can it be Defined?
These forms of developments are often maligned, they do serve a valuable function.
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Commentary – Urban Hyper-density – Why Suburban Living is Evil and How You can Save the World by Moving into the City.
As I listened to how expensive my chosen way of life is, I wondered why Americans choose to live in suburbs.
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Commentary – Millennials in the Workforce – How Shared Experiences of Gen X’ers and Millennials Can Bridge the Gap to Build a Better Brighter Future for All.
My point is not to diminish Elizabeth’s concerns, but to share a kinship.
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Commentary – Modular Construction – Why Modular Construction Techniques Continue to Languish and Why Procurement is Responsible.
Johnston is so focused on procurement that he has completely overlooked the rest of the findings.
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