| Issue |
Articles |
| 1997 No. 1 |
Deductive Fee on CO’s
Consultant Reimbursable Costs
Hidden Temporary Employees
Maintenance Contracts |
| 1997 No. 2 |
Liquidated Damages – Uses and Limitations
Lump Sum General Conditions |
| 1998 No. 1 |
Self-Insurance Costs
Related Party Subcontractors
Negotiating from Strength |
| 1999 No. 1
|
Contractors Home Office Employees and Office Expense
Does Your Contractor Do a Good Job of Subcontracting?
Penalty for Audit Findings
Construction Cost Prior to Contract Award
Relocation Expense Limitation |
| 2000 No. 1
|
General Conditions Costs Associated with Delay
Apprentices and T&M Work
No Backcharges to Subcontractors
Overstatement of Retirement Cost
Pre-Construction Audits |
| 2000 No. 2
|
Andersen Construction Impresses Again
Off the Record Insurance Settlements
Unit Rates and their Limitations
Should Your Contractor Have Auditor Approval Rights?
Should You Audit the GMP Before You Sign?
Related Parties |
| 2001 No. 1 |
Market Rate Payroll Burden
Defining Allowances
Defining When Pre-Construction Begins
Lease Construction Audits
We Don’t Have Any Apprentices |
| 2002 No. 1 |
Change Order Pricing
General Liability Insurance and Fee
Recruitment Costs
Variable and Verifiable Cost
Payments Made Outside the Contract
Fix the Rate, It’s Too Hard to Audit |
| 2002 No. 2 |
Be on Guard for Subguard
Subcontractor Change Orders Without Totals
Additional Fee for Self-Performed Work
Should Contractors be Responsible for Allowance Overruns? |
| 2003 No. 1
|
Higher Contractor Insurance Deductibles
Final Accounting before Final Payment
Contradictory Exhibits
Rental Equipment Costs- Total Duration or Actual Usage
What do you mean by “Data Processing”? |
| 2004 No. 1 |
Are Union Benefits Wages?
Are you Contracting with a Joint Venture?
Equipment Charged at Weekly Rates
Sick Leave - Actual vs. Allowed
Texas Payment and Performance Bond Rebate
Don’t Send Me the Backup
Should Contractors be Responsible for Allowance Overruns?
Additional Fee for Self-Performed Work |
| 2005 No. 1 |
What is the Contractors Incentive not to Overcharge
Two Faced Contractor Arguments
Should We Audit? |
| 2005 No. 2 |
Top Lists of Don’ts
Seen it All?
Can’t Rely on Policy Rates
So You Want to fix Payroll Burden Rates? |
| 2005 No. 3
|
What Kind of Insurance is Reimbursable?
Shared Savings or Contractor’s Windfall?
What Insurance Are You Buying with Subguard?
Should Your Contractor Help You Prepare a Property Loss Claim?
You Asked About Subsidiaries not Affiliates |
| 2006 No. 1 |
Are You Writing About Me?
Billing GL Insurance Upfront
OCIP Credits Need to Match Estimated Cost
Deductive Change Orders that Never Complete
Who Pays for Accelerating the Schedule?
Problems with Billing for Mobilization |
| 2006
No. 2 |
Website Update
Contractor Controlled Insurance Program Cost
Sub Bids Are Not Accounting Records
Affiliates of Contractors Working for Subcontractors
Are You Paying Subguard and Sub Bonds? |
|
2007 No. 1 |
CCM Adds Experience
Should Lump Sum Agreements
Within the GMP be Auditable?
Why Did We Ask for Labor
Rates?
What Does Project GL
Insurance Cost? |
|
2007 No. 2 |
"Mutually Agreeable" Audit
Firm
SubGuard and Payment and
Performance Bonds
When is a Lease Not a
Lease?
Impossible to Tell
Savings Sharing on Contingency?
Fee on Change Orders |
|
2008
No. 1 |
What Do We Audit in a GMP
Contract?
Some New CCIP Overcharges
|
|
2008 No. 2 |
Is the CM's Total Fee
Earned When Terminated After Preconstruction?
Auditing the Contractor's
Sub Bids Prior to Agreeing to a GMP with a Shared Saving
Have You Agreed to Bonuses
for CM Employees?
A Little Detail Never Hurts
You Can't Have Our Job Cost
Reports |
|
2009
No. 1 |
Audit Concerns in a
Shrinking Construction Market
Construction Contract
Termination Issues
|
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2009 No. 2 |
Further Perils of
Allowing Self-Performed Work
Recruiting Charges
Problems with Allowing
Fixed Hourly Rates for Salaried Employees
Another Reason Why We
Are Concerned About Construction Managers Using SubGuard
When the Owner's
Development Partner is Also the GM/GC
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|
2010
No. 1 |
Tear Down the Walls
No End to Creativity
A Subguard Insurance
Certificate
Allowance
Reconiliations
The Fee is Just the
Beginning
How Long? |