by Simplar | Feb 24, 2021 | Risk Management, Weekly Construction Message
The Contract: A Risk Management Tool Deviation from Plans or Specification Disputes Contracting is a risky business. Construction projects are high cost, complex team efforts that play out over an extended time period (often many years) with plenty of financial risk...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Risk Management
Recognizing and Managing Risk Evolving Market – Same Risks Are You Risking Your Company By Growing Too Fast The New Rules of Risk
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Risk Management
“Let’s Get Real” In a recent article I wrote the following: “There is a downside to the great market we are enjoying because some construction enterprises will grow too fast and the rate of growth can be lethal. Most construction enterprises were involuntarily...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Risk Management
“Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.” (Proverbs 16:18) A Personal Note One of the reasons I have loved my lifelong career in the construction industry is the people I have been privileged to work with. They’re my kind of people;...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Risk Management
Subject: the role of sureties You Can’t be a Surety So Learn to Act Like One Thirty years of accumulated study as a contractor, work-out specialist, consultant, and research professor have verified the following realities about risk in the construction industry:...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Risk Management, Risk Management
Risk is Not a Dirty Word Over the last thirty years I have conducted literally hundreds of seminars with construction professionals covering an array of issues concerning the business of contracting. Along the way I have noticed that whenever I bring up risk, the...
