FMI Insights: What to Do When Projects Go Bad, Part 1
Even the most promising design and construction projects can get quickly sidelined by a few missteps, a couple of bad decisions, misaligned expectations between the parties or any other number of challenges. In this three-part series, we’ll explore some of the key issues that contractors, architects/engineers and owners encounter on their projects and describe common causes of these problems. We will also highlight the red flags that all project stakeholders should be aware of and outline the steps that organizations can take to 1) avoid making the same mistakes repeatedly and 2) right the ship on an existing bad project.
Drawing on FMI’s experience implementing partnering processes on more than 1,400 different projects and an in-depth review of 35 projects from the last two decades, this article highlights a broad range of project types that shared two common characteristics: They were behind schedule in various degrees and they had multiple unresolved issues, many of which involved unresolved changes or claims.
