Restoring Balance

Ah yes. Hypocrisy again.

Continuing Cost Shifting to the Subs

If you ever look at your GC’s Project Manager and somehow see Darth Vader instead it is likely due to the behavior or superiority complex of the Project Manager. How do you bring balance? There are many ways to do so. Knowing your contract and fighting back is one-way. Going over their head is another unless the PM is also the VP. Not a lot of great answers but that is why Gensrate and the Gendex were created. Hopefully bad attitudes might change a little if they are exposed to the light.

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The hypocrisy of it all: When a supplier can’t

Code of Ethics. Supplier code. Doing business code. Every single thing from their “five pillars” of doing business to 50-page ethics code flies completely in the face of everything that has occurred with their product. In fact lies have been told by the manufacturer’s sales reps to attempt to cover-up a variety of things. They’re […]

Typically contingency % for building

Everywhere I look I see 5-10% as typical. That said there is currently a 26 million dollar public works project that only set aside 2.5%. From there the GC doesn’t book change orders but strictly as contingency expenses but then turns around and claims a low amount of change orders which isn’t true. So rather […]

New CO ratio to be included in future genDEX

It isn’t integrated yet as details are still being worked on but the general idea is that GCs seem to be really good at booking credits and back charges and REALLY slow at approving change orders. This can greatly affect pay apps and cash flows. A slight difference might be expected because of presentation to […]

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