Owner involvement in the way of project management and furnishing material is done for one primary reason:  to save money for the owner.  It doesn't always happen.  The owner's decisions in these regards can cost the contractor money.  Or the taxpayer.   I think that many owners feel that project management of a construction project is an easy way to cut construction costs ...  Read More >  

Contracting can be the most fantastic of businesses, but also one of the toughest.  Read about some of the things that make it the best and the worst of businesses.   I think that everyone thinks their business is different from everyone else's.  As I travel the country, I hear it from every contractor I meet:  "well, our business is. ..  Read More >  

Kevin McKeon,  Senior  Partner at Watt Tieder (McLean, Virginia), reported in their firm's Fall 2016 newsletter on an interesting case in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.  Despite the jury finding the City of Allentown acted in bad faith, the trial judge, at her discretion as permitted by law, did not award attorney's fees and penalty to the Contractor when said  award  was...  Read More >