I have an 11 year old son. I enjoy telling him stupid stories and joking around with him, especially in front of his friends. One of my regular bits is that I will proclaim to him that I am not really who he thinks I am and that I’ve been living a lie. I’ve told [...]

Since shortly after the start of the Great Recession, virtually every project owner has welcomed – and in some cases dreaded – the extreme low-bid environment we see today. Unprecedented in living memory, bids 20 to 30 percent below the engineer’s estimate are quite commonplace. 40 percent is not all that rare, and 50 percent [...]

Living in the Northeast, it seems as though January 2011 was the quintessential month for a contractor to submit a weather related claim for equitable compensation based upon the extraordinary amount of precipitation that this past month has brought us. Will these claims be warranted? Well, that depends upon the contract. However, it is a [...]