Experienced project developers know that managing risk on a major project involves initial planning, design, construction, and commissioning. These tasks call for different skill sets — making it tempting to think of them as separate — but they need to be coordinated to prevent the creation of troublesome gaps in areas of responsibility. In my latest article for the Daily Journal of Commerce, I examine where these gaps may occur — in planning for code compliance, assigning scopes of work, procuring construction materials and other areas — and I look at ways to manage the risk presented by such gaps. Read the full article here.

“Teamwork is needed during each stage of a project: supply, delivery, installation, testing” was originally published by the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce on September 6, 2018.

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Karl Oles, a partner of the firm practicing in the Construction and Design group, has for more than 30 years helped owners, architects, engineers, and contractors solve complex legal problems through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and trial. Karl has also drafted, negotiated, and…

Karl Oles, a partner of the firm practicing in the Construction and Design group, has for more than 30 years helped owners, architects, engineers, and contractors solve complex legal problems through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and trial. Karl has also drafted, negotiated, and analyzed multimillion-dollar design and construction contracts on a wide variety of construction projects. He has served as an arbitrator on the American Arbitration Association’s construction panel. He is coauthor of the current standard treatise on Washington lien law (available for free by following this link). He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Litigation-Construction from 2013 to the present.

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