Proper submittal of ASI

ASI timing

Beware of the game

In my previous blog post I talk about an ASI that I believe was mistakenly denied 9 months after the fact. What I realized is that from now on any ASI we receive I will be asking for the corresponding structural plans to be sent with any changes or differences as well. The architect is playing a game of look in this spot on the architecturals and then excusing himself based on the structurals and wrongfully denying his ASI. Bottom line ask for both and ask for both to be reconciled and red-lined appropriately.

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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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