Construction Nightmares: Jobs from Hell and How to Avoid Them

by Arthur F. O'Leary, James Acret

Forty-year construction project veteran Arthur O'Leary relates actual jobs gone bad in the world of construction, dealing with plans, extras, delays, interference, scheduling, extra work, change orders defective construction, inadequate supervision, incompetent contractors, and just about every other problem that can happen on a construction job. After the reader finds out what happened on the job, what went wrong and how it went wrong, James Acret provides a legal analysis and the probable outcome of the potential arbitration or lawsuit. Acret also draws on more than 40 years of experience as a construction lawyer and legal writer to give the reader the practical information needed to handle problems on the job, and to solve them before they become nightmares.

414 pages, Paperback

First published March 28, 2001