When is a "Change" a Change?
Name something you never want to get and if you get it, you never want to loose: a contract dispute. In my experience, resolving unexpected and latent conditions that impact the project scope are the most common disputes we face as owners, designers, and builders. And they are not always "physical conditions"; often they are "procedural" in nature...what one entity thought the other would do during the long process of designing and building a project. YouTube: "Eliminate Change-Orders" When it comes to design-build delivery, changes and change-orders seem to often come as a shock; more so than design-bid-build. Why? For several reasons I think. We've grown use to change-orders in design-bid-build delivery. So much so that it seems the most important DBB contract language concerns what everyone does when things go wrong: dispute resolution and change-order clauses. Most owners carry a "change-order" contingency in their budgets based on