Broken buildings, busted budgets : how to fix America's trillion-dollar construction industry / Barry B. LePatner, with Timothy Jacobson and Robert E. Wright.

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LePatner, Barry B

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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780226472706
0226472701
1281965812
9781281965813

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Broken buildings, busted budgets.DDC classification:

338.4/76900973 22

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HD9715.U52 L46 2007eb

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Contents:

Introduction -- Overbudget and overdue -- The economic context of construction -- False starts and frustrated beginnings: a history of the industry -- Asymmetric information: the big barrier to change -- Minor blemishes: unions, workers, and government -- Fixing the construction industry: consolidation, intermediaries, and innovation -- Practical advice to owners for getting started now -- Notes.

Summary: Across the nation, construction projects large and small?from hospitals to schools to simple home improvements?are spiraling out of control. Delays and cost overruns have come to seem?normal,? even as they drain our wallets and send our blood pressure skyrocketing. In Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets, prominent construction attorney Barry B. LePatner builds a powerful case for change in America?s sole remaining?mom and pop? industry?an industry that consumes 1 .23 trillion and wastes at least 1 20 billion each year. With three decades of experience representing clients that include eminent a.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-215) and index.

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Across the nation, construction projects large and small?from hospitals to schools to simple home improvements?are spiraling out of control. Delays and cost overruns have come to seem?normal,? even as they drain our wallets and send our blood pressure skyrocketing. In Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets, prominent construction attorney Barry B. LePatner builds a powerful case for change in America?s sole remaining?mom and pop? industry?an industry that consumes 1 .23 trillion and wastes at least 1 20 billion each year. With three decades of experience representing clients that include eminent a.

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