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Best Practices – Close Out Procedures – The top 7 Items You MUST Do At Close-Out.
Contractors and Owners alike tend to treat close-out with lax and even dismissive regard.
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Best Practices – Substantial Completion – What Does it Mean and Why You Should Care.
Substantial completion is the single most important date of any project.
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Best Practices – Lien Waivers – How You Could Lose Your Home Without One.
A lien is a legal document that imparts ownership onto a third party until a specific debt is paid.
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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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