Done on site, never claimed

Every site manager knows this. Extra work gets done when the engineer says go, by email or at the progress meeting, and the change order never gets written. The gap shows up at the final account, when the notice periods are long gone.

One case on our Try page: a streets and utilities job. Yesper read the project email and meeting minutes against the change order log and found 15 change order candidates worth $353,507 nobody had raised. Delays at the highway intersection cover the whole milestone overrun, but most of those days were never noticed in writing.

The change order gets written while the crew is on site. The notice goes out while the delay is running, not after liquidated damages are assessed. Same for the neighbouring jobs on the Try page: claims out of the site diaries, a final pay application checked line by line.

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