FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Achieving growth despite the region’s commercial construction slowdown, Miller Construction Company has added three superintendents to direct operations at projects for new and existing clients throughout Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
William Hess, Robert Verlinde and Eric Wolverton joined the organization recently as superintendents, according to President Harley Miller. “We’ve focused on growing client relationships in the education, healthcare and hospitality sectors with positive outcomes,” he said, “and we’re drawing from the region’s unprecedented pool of high-performing talent to expand our team.”
William Hess was previously a commercial project manager with McGarvey Development, Fort Myers. In that role he managed all facets of projects, from permitting, contracting, web site development and construction through close-out documents. In his 16 years of business experience, Hess has served as project manager and owner of Paul Davis Restoration and Remodeling of Fort Myers and in executive roles at construction firms in Jacksonville and Denver. He received a bachelor’s degree in construction management from the University of North Florida and is a licensed general contractor.
The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) business has experienced rapid increases in design sophistication, leaving firms to grapple with how to address traditional concerns of how to raise productivity in the face of heightened project complexity and compressed project schedules. Add to the mix a proliferation of alternative project delivery methods and a growing number of stakeholders, and maintaining, let alone improving, productivity can become a challenging goal. With a renewed focus on successful collaboration, nonetheless, firms are realizing that this goal can be attained.
A number of business developments are driving the need for greater collaboration within and between AEC firms. Foremost among them is schedule compression. As the design-construct approach of delivery becomes a lot more prevalent, much more projects are breaking ground just before designs are finalized, putting pressure on everybody in the project to keep up. This abbreviated timetable raises manpower and logistics issues and strains existing communication processes. In addition, greater regulation and liability exposure, industry consolidation, and heightened specialty and complexity of design contribute to the want for improved collaboration.
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A construction project is a complex net of contracts and other legal obligations, each of which ought to be carefully considered. A contract is the exchange of a set of obligations between two or more parties, but it is not so easy a matter as trying to get the other side to agree to as a lot as feasible in exchange for as little as achievable. The time element in construction means that a delay costs money, and in cases of bottlenecks, the delay can be extremely costly. Thus, the contracts should be designed to guarantee that each side is capable of performing the obligations set out. Contracts that set out clear expectations and clear paths to accomplishing those expectations are far far more likely to result in the project flowing smoothly, whereas poorly drafted contracts lead to confusion and collapse.
Legal advisors in the beginning of a construction project seek to identify ambiguities and other potential sources of trouble in the contract structure, and to present choices for preventing problems. Throughout the procedure of the project, they work to steer clear of and resolve conflicts that arise. In every case, the lawyer facilitates an exchange of obligations that matches the reality of the project.