DHA
Construction Management

You signed the contract in November. The crew starts in April. In between, the board sent a congratulatory email, the manager forwarded the insurance certificate, and everyone assumed the rest would sort itself out on the first morning. It does sort itself out. Just not in your favor. On a project with no kickoff, the rules get set by whoever shows up first: the crew that parks in the visitor spaces on day one, the foreman who picks the dumpster location, the resident who cal

A friend with 14 years in defect repair recently posted a different view from mine on how HOAs should procure construction defect projects. Her post makes several points I agree with, so I want to answer it carefully. She is right that the lowest bid doesn't always mean the best value. She is right that a process fixated on the lowest number can produce scope gaps and unnecessary change orders. She is right that collaboration among the contractor, the engineer and the HOA's O