Michael and I raced the 20 yards to the sign. We were exhausted by the effort even though we both run regularly to stay in shape. The difference was that we were running at 14,000 feet. Altitude sickness sets in for many people at about 9,000 feet and airplanes generally are pressurized to an altitude of about 8,000 feet. Just a few days earlier we had been hiking at 8,000 feet. Hard, tiring but ultimately exhilarating because we were touring Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas in central Peru.

  As I returned home from a recent trip to New York City, I realized an appreciation for the history behind the structures that have formed one of my favorite cities. Simply looking past the bright lights of Times Square and beyond the busses and taxis will take you back to a time over a [...]

Over the past several years I have had hundreds of conversations regarding the Recommended Practice on Forensic Schedule Analysis (RP29R-03 published by AACE International. More recently I spoke to a fellow delay expert who shared his objections to the RP as currently published. These objections included the oft-repeated complaints that the recommended practice does not contain a single best recommended practice, fails to include any legal citations, and includes methodologies rejected by many courts. The delay expert got me thinking about the judicial status of CPM issues. I note that virtually the entire structure of CPM scheduling is in a constant state of flux. Therefore the areas where the law of CPM is unsettled are more numerous than where they are settled.

There are a number of reasons to expect that disputes and lawsuits on green building and LEED certified projects are right around the corner…have we made the turn yet?

About fifteen years ago, I recall being amazed at how much the industry had advanced in a few short years in its use of technology and how that affected my day to day duties. At the time, I was working as a Project Superintendent for a small local contractor. In reality I was the Project [...]