We have some CSI authors books available on Amazon. The Architect's Guide to Writing: For Design and Construction Professionals published Sep 15, 2014 by Bill Schmalz. Bill is on the board of LACSI ...
By no means is your experience rare! It is one of the unsolved questions of architecture as to why it's so hard to get information from the client about its business relationship with the contractor--surely ...
My friend, I do a little piece in my lectures on this subject with my graduate students. The slide has a photo of Socrates and the quote from Plato's Apology. "He is wisest; but not because he possesses ...
As usual Kevin is able to articulate the problem better than I, and in fewer words. I don't have any particular insight into how you keep the stakeholders eyes from glazing over as you offer that explanation ...
Melissa--You're not alone. While most of my work is for public owners, there are some who have procurement departments whose purview includes drafting the agreement and refuse to either (1) talk to anyone ...
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