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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
My perspective is that there are limited ethics in the Construction Industry. It's always low price wins and finding a way hide the actual costs from the owner that he will pay for thru changes.
Conversely owners are trying to add clauses to contracts where the guy who wins the job just slit his own throat.
It's also trending to get even more cut throat too.
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That's strong language, but I can understand this. The owner wants cost certainty, the bidder wants to win the work by being low bid. The contract governs, so there becomes a huge spec sheet outlining, increasingly to the nth degree, the exact specs. And then the game becomes, what are part of the specs and what are extras. Lots of room on either side to twist things around.
Then add a general contractor in between them. And an EPC.
But yeah, what a game.