TY  - BOOK
AU  - LePatner,Barry B.
AU  - Jacobson,Timothy C.
AU  - Wright,Robert E.
TI  - Broken buildings, busted budgets: how to fix America's trillion-dollar construction industry 
SN  - 9780226472706
AV  - HD9715.U52 L46 2007eb
U1  - 338.4/76900973 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Construction industry
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Management
KW  - Construction
KW  - Industrie
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Gestion
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Industries
KW  - Service
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtt
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-215) and index; 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
N2  - 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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