Owners experience work with contractors that don’t deliver what they promise, making them understandably wary and untrusting. They have huge financial exposure, limited resources, and demanding investors who expect the construction phase to meet the projected schedule and budget.oes here

Due to tight deadlines and countless conditions to consider architects become fearful of being liable for design issues and can become defensive and hesitant to take the lead with solutions during construction. Furthermore, since most of their billings are complete before a project breaks ground, they are often criticized for lack of engagement once construction begins.

General Contractors / CMs must translate an imperfect design into reality on tight deadlines under threat of liquidated damages. They must orchestrate dozens of specialty subcontractors across even more scopes to achieve success, many of whom would not have been their preferred contractor in their trade but were selected due to the owner’s budget constraints. Most GC/CMs are known to avoid responsibility for project issues by placing them back on the owner and design team or putting them back on their subcontractors. 

Specialty contractors inherit the risk that everyone above them in the process passes along. They are a single entity working alongside a sea of other contractors, often strangers, who can help or hurt their own results. Their experience with GC/CMs has taught them to withhold information and assume that they are reaching in their pocket all the time.