Construction stakeholders are concerned about inadequate cost controls and poor construction management on projects.” This reads like a complaint anyone today would make, given the innumerable construction projects with $50 million, $100 million or $1 billion cost overruns. Is it shocking that this sentiment was not expressed by a 21st century construction engineer, owner or superintendent? Instead, as cited in Philip Bruner’s William Mitchell Law Review article, “The Historical Emergence of Construction Law,” the complaint was made in the age of Vitruvius, chief engineer of Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus in 24 BC.
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