What type of contract includes a cap on potential project costs?

Which project delivery system gives the owner the benefit of only having to maintain only one primary contractual relationship for both the design and construction work?

Which entity typically remains at risk when coordinating subconsultants?

In a GMP contract, who benefits from any cost savings below the guaranteed maximum price?

A contractor built a new office tower for the project owner under a design-bid-build project delivery method.  Although the contractor followed the plans and specifications exactly, almost every window on the building quickly developed leaks near the window sill and caused water damage and mold issues behind the walls.  The project owner is irate and threatening to bring both the contractor and the lead designer to court.  Upon investigation, the contractor determined that the leaks were due to the architect’s defective design of the window sill flashing.  In other words, the contractor built exactly what was shown on the plans, but the design on the plans was not correct.  Which legal concept is the contractor’s strongest argument for why the designer should be liable to the owner, and not the contractor?

What is included in a designer’s overhead?

What term refers to the point when the building is ready for occupancy but some work remains?

Mary works as a structural engineer for Schaeffer, Inc., an Ohio corporation.  Mary works in their Phoenix, Arizona, office.  She is working on the structural design for a project that will be built in Louisville, Kentucky.  In which location(s) does Mary need to be licensed as a structural engineer in order to stamp the structural design drawings for this project with her seal?

Public Agencies typically use the following strategy to identify a contractor for construction of their project:

When a justice agrees with the majority decision but disagrees with the rationale presented in the majority opinion, he or she may write a