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The Team is Fractured

The typical design and construction process is wasteful of money and natural resources.  It is laced with CYA attitudes and burdened by adversarial players.  In the labyrinthine contractual bindings that typify modern construction project delivery, the focus on client interests is often lost.  Clients typically find themselves working with a team of rivals and receiving avoidable change orders and cost overruns.  Result?  Typically, only super-human effort by everyone on the team provides more than mediocre value.  (more…)

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