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Exposed steel below-grade
Greetings. This is the MODERATOR. I have noticed that this thread is the same as Exposed Steel below-grade. Since that is so, I am shutting down this thread. -MODERATOR
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Answer to Connundrum #1
It'a taken a while, but here is the answer to conundrum #1: Situation 1: Help A job is running late for a hundred reasons. The general contractor wants it finished…
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Final Conundrum #6 – Who’s responsible f
This is the belated final installment of Gerald W. Ittig's situations. Situation 6: The essence of time The CPM schedule shows plumbing work and electrical work as co-critical. The mechanical…
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Can a column support a cable tray? Conun
Time for your daily intellectual/legal/moral/business challenge: Situation 5: Safe or sorry Your contract requires you to install cable tray* in an existing warehouse. You decide to connect the tray to…
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Latent Damage – Conundrum #4
Here is the 4th installment of Gerald W. Ittig's legal problems: Situation 4: Back to the roots The drawings show the routing for underground cable to run power to the…
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You be the judge — Conundrum #3
Situation 3: Stick to the plan After contract award, the owner changes the specification for lighting. You submit revised shop drawings and a proposed price increase. A few months pass,…
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Legal/Business conundrum #2
This is the second of Mr. Ittig's questions. What happens legally with an unsigned contract. ~Peter Situation 2: Fair compensation The construction manager sends you a subcontract. You reply, without…
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Business conundrum #1
I came across an interesting legal column in Electrical Contractor Magazine. Mr. Ittig posits several [real] legal problems from the construction field and this is the first one. I am…
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Solution to ant invasion
I don't have anything personally against ants, but when they form an eightlane super highway into my kitchen and start treating my hamburger or whatever I leave out as a…
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Observations on a Tree/ACQ
Like Newton, I glanced over on my terrace and noticed a tree -- but it certainly wasn't an apple one. And I noticed or observed that the trunk goes into…