This section is intended to be used by all company personnel having any project management, project engineering, or site superintendence responsibilities. It should be read through in sequence, thoroughly understood, and referred to at any time. The issues regarding contracts, rights, and duties of the contracting parties, and specific application of contract language are the fundamental bases of the interaction between the owner, design professionals, and construction provider.
The section is generally divided into three areas: the first describes the various forms of project delivery methods, associated forms of agreement, and the general rights and duties of the parties; the second addresses concepts that apply to contracts in general; and the third devotes a large amount of material to the specific issues affecting the various forms of construction contracts.
Contemporary project management demands the ability to quickly and completely assess the total picture of each situation almost as it is occurring. From that position of complete information, we will all be in a better position to assess all options and to visualize each one through to its final conclusion—even if that conclusion must be arbitration or litigation. The better we can develop our ability to do this, the better we will be able to quickly determine appropriate responses for the moment, and for the time periods following. The details necessary to be able to efficiently string our action-items together will immediately become clear—right down to the correspondence distribution and file procedure.
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