By: Derryl Hermanutz

Derryl Hermanutz — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 21:49:00 +0000

I agree. I spent my working life as a contractor and when there were “cost overruns” on my jobs they came out of my pocket, not out of the customer’s pocket. You make a deal and you live by it, unless you’re a large corporation, in which case you make a deal then you try to extort more money out of the customer. If the customer finds out you plan on using substandard materials, and delays the job until you agree to use standard or better materials, then it’s your fault for the delay, not the customer’s. Where I come from, contractors like this one are called “crooks”.

By: K Schnelle

K Schnelle — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:52:00 +0000

From the sound of this article, it appears the consortium attempted to use the age-old trick of inferior quality parts (concrete in this case) in order to cut corners. In Texas we call those kinds of people s.o.b.’s. And from construction contracts I’ve ever seen, when there’s a completion delay it’s the CONTRACTOR who pays a penalty, not the one who hired them (i.e. Panama). Please get the whole story for us as this develops so this makes better sense for your next post.

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By: Derryl Hermanutz

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