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Construction Contracting: Business and Legal Principles

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At first I was disappointed when I realized the book was written primarily as a teaching text for senior students in baccalaureate university programs in construction engineering or construction management. However, the book is so well written and full of case law references that I was immediately provided with excellent material for two in-process construction claims packages.

I was terribly disappointed in this book. I teach construction law at a community college and was assigned to use this book my first semester. I'll not use it again. The organization of the information was questionable. Many statements contained in the book were flat wrong or presented only a misrepresentative portion of a bigger picture. Many key topics were completely unaddressed. I can say that where the book is correct, the information is presented in plain English and provides the student with useable information about the basics.

First things first, there is a lot more to contracts than what this book has to offer. This will give you a basic idea of what a contract is and what some of the terminology means, but it is no way a substitute of reading through actual contracts in the real world. If this is for coursework, then I would highly recommend it. But for real-world application, I am not sure this book has a whole lot of usefulness.