Calling our supplier to come meet with the owner, architect and GC without calling us to participate smells of collusion. Not saying that it is. Just saying that the smell test is a little stinky.
So. Tell me your going to pay me retention only to lie and not do so really is irritating in so many ways. It’s been a year and nearly nothing you have told us is correct and each time has led to a scramble on our part. Your motivation? I wish I knew but alas […]
I refuse to be road kill. The State of Utah may be ok with it because the GCs have far more lobbying sway but getting rich while stealing from others is still unethical and technically illegal. I may not be able to stop it from happening but I will shine a light wherever I find […]
Officially state law says that a GC is not allowed to charge more than 5% for retention TOTAL. Well at least one GC thought they were cute and now demand an additional 5% for “closeout documentation”. Yeah. Right. Because nobody will notice and once you sign a contract even in contravention of state law then […]
Freedom of Information Act = Federal level information requests for documents GRAMA = Government Records Access Management Act = Utah’s version of FOIA GCs = Fair warning, people including your subcontractors have access to a lot of information. Including information you might have tried to alter one way or the other. Like [...]
I honestly feel that there are architects that run a branched scheme. Beyond simple mistakes they purposely draw different plans so as to ensnare different subcontractors. Rarely do we bid from Structural sheets only. There are still structural engineers who literally use “not to scale” on their drawings so to bid you scale and measure […]
