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Originally Posted by 1487
Yes, all of this has to be costing a lot of extra money and affecting the schedule. With this projects the entire scope is usually bid to a CM who is supposed to deliver the entire project within the budgeted amount. I'm not exactly sure how unforeseen conditions like this are handled, but I'm sure there are instances where the contractor can pass on these costs because there was no way to anticipate certain unforeseen conditions.
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I agree that they must certainly be getting into the fine print of the contracts, assuming that they addressed the possibility of such massive contingencies. I'd love to have a piece of the action against the prior demolition contractor, if there's any recovery to be made there.