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Comment: Clients foot the bill – and call the tune

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  1. Having read both this article and the Staffan Engstrom article I can see reasonable views in both sides. I think that Contractors take on projects without trying to develop an understanding of whether the client or their consultant team and client’s take on a project without fully understanding what they want from that project, and what the total end result should be.
    In my view the worst thing that the construction industry did was to go down the road of Design and Build contracts. In my experience this has led contractors to spend more time looking at ways to save costs, irrespective of whether they comply with the specification or not. Quality of finished work has gone down and it has perpetuated the use of low cost, short duration finishes materials. The sooner we get rid of D&B and accept that projects will take a little longer in the design phase the better.

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