Construction Change Orders: Impact, Avoidance, and Documentation

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Change orders? Make sure you come out on top. Find out how to prevent change orders from eating into your firm's profits in Construction Change Orders: Impact, Avoidance, Documentation. Award-winning author and seasoned construction contractor James L. O'Brien shows you how to come out on top in any change order situation. He shows you step-by-step how to implement a change-order free strategy that helps boost your reputation, ensures repeat business, and enhances your long-term profitability. You get complete details on every aspect of a typical change order--including the contractual basis for change orders...their impact on your schedule...cost of time...documentation...subcontractors...potential problems arising from change orders...and much more.


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Discover how to control--or avoid--the problems caused by construction change orders. Let one of the most respected leaders in today's construction industry show you how to deal with the unwanted reality of change orders. This reference describes why change orders happen...how to mitigate their adverse consequences...and how to avoid unnecessary ones. James J. O'Brien offers you a frank, objective view of change orders from the various perspectives of the owner, designer, project manager, general contractor, and subcontractor. His book fully explains change and claim management systems...high- and low-risk contracts...responsibility for changes...time extensions due to change orders...and much more. This detailed reference will enable you to: access numerous forms, letters, charts, and documentation relating to change orders; study a complete example of a change order--from the first notice of a changed condition through processing of the actual change order; learn from cases showing the consequential damanges that can occur with change orders. It's all here in one convenient source--the expert guidance you need to manage change orders proactively, and avoid major delays and claims on construction projects.


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Discover how to control—or avoid—the problems caused by constructionchange orders. Let one of the most respected leaders in today's construction industry show you how to deal with the unwanted reality of change orders. This reference describes why change orders happen...how to mitigate their adverse consequences...and how to avoid unnecessary ones. James J. O'Brien offers you a frank, objective view of change orders from the various perspectives of the owner, designer, project manager, general contractor, and subcontractor. His book fully explains change and claim management systems...high- and low-risk contracts...responsibility for changes...time extensions due to change orders...and much more. This detailed reference will enable you to: access numerous forms, letters, charts, and documentation relating to change orders; study a complete example of a change order—from the first notice of a changed condition through processing of the actual change order; learn from cases showing the consequential damanges that can occur with change orders. It's all here in one convenient source—the expert guidance you need to manage change orders proactively, and avoid major delays and claims on construction projects.


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