{"id":638,"date":"2023-10-13T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/?p=638"},"modified":"2023-10-26T14:14:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T18:14:26","slug":"flaws-in-project-scope-lead-to-court-most-often-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/2023\/10\/13\/flaws-in-project-scope-lead-to-court-most-often-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaws In Project Scope Lead To Court Most Often, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jeffreylhamera.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Jeffrey L. Hamera<\/b><\/a>, vice chair of Duane Morris&#8217;\u00a0<a title=\"Read more about Construction Group\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/practices\/construction_group.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Construction Group<\/a> , was quoted in the\u00a0<em>Law360<\/em> article, &#8220;Flaws In Project Scope Lead To Court Most Often, Report Says.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From Law360:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">[Mr. Hamera said] that project owners have looked toward reducing design or project delivery costs by starting construction before design work wraps up entirely, in a trend that&#8217;s been building for years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Hamera said those objectives can be valid, although they can distress a project if parties haven&#8217;t planned for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">&#8220;If the parties are sophisticated and understand there&#8217;s going to be some completion of the design after the initial bids are in place, it&#8217;s something that can be managed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s always a friction between what&#8217;s anticipated from the design on which the contractor&#8217;s bids are based, and what&#8217;s really a change that wasn&#8217;t anticipated and couldn&#8217;t be anticipated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/real-estate-authority\/articles\/1732320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Law360\u00a0<\/em>website (subscription may be required).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey L. Hamera, vice chair of Duane Morris&#8217;\u00a0Construction Group , was quoted in the\u00a0Law360 article, &#8220;Flaws In Project Scope Lead To Court Most Often, Report Says.&#8221; From Law360: [Mr. Hamera said] that project owners have looked toward reducing design or project delivery costs by starting construction before design work wraps up entirely, in a trend &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/2023\/10\/13\/flaws-in-project-scope-lead-to-court-most-often-report-says\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flaws In Project Scope Lead To Court Most Often, Report Says&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[696],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"authors":[{"term_id":696,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}