1) Your small construction company (with a previous $30 million annual volume) is awarded a contract for a new high school project in Gloucester County, NJ for the project remuneration amount of $38 million. One month after the notice to proceed, the school board issues your firm a change order to increase the size of the school by 60 percent due to an anticipated population increase. What are your options in responding to this cardinal change?
2) Your A/E firm is being urged by the city of Philadelphia to not only design the renovation of an historic Philadelphia building for offices of the Environmental Sustainability and Compliance Team, but also wants you to be the at-risk construction contractor. Your design firm has provided agency construction observation services before, but not actual construction work. What does the firm need to do in order to assume this work and perform as requested by the Owner?
3) Soon after graduation, you are offered a position as an Owner's Representative for a firm that has a series of walk-in health clinics. It has been customary for the health care firm to include a 10 % retainage in all contracts - large and small - and they ask you after a year on the job (and after many complaints from Contractors) about your opinion of relaxing the retainage to 5% and doing away with retainage altogether at substantial completion. Despite a couple of problem contractors in your portfolio, how will you respond to your employer on this matter?