Broken buildings, busted budgets : how to fix America's trillion-dollar construction industry /

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Author / Creator:LePatner, Barry B.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11187140
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Other authors / contributors:Jacobson, Timothy C., 1948-
Wright, Robert E. (Robert Eric), 1969-
ISBN:9780226472706
0226472701
1281965812
9781281965813
9780226472676
0226472671
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-215) and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: LePatner, Barry B. Broken buildings, busted budgets. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 9780226472676 0226472671