Specifications, Contracts, and Manuals
Clear specifications are essential to successful project delivery. TRAUNER offers extensive experience developing and updating construction specifications, contracts, guidelines, and manuals for both traditional and alternative project delivery methods. From risk analysis and RFP development to performance specifications, quality assurance, and control provisions, we help clients manage responsibility, cost, time, and quality through clear and effective standard specifications and contract documents.
Standard Specification Update and Improvement
A construction project can only be as good as its specifications. So start things off right. Thanks to our experience in analyzing, managing, and administering complex construction projects, we know just how to develop clear, complete specifications for your project that will get the job done and avoid claims. We’ll work with you to draft contract general provisions and make recommendations on contract language to effectively manage risk and reduce claims. Our electronically-produced specifications are available in Microsoft Word, PDF, HTML, and Epub formats.
Contracts, Guidelines, and Manuals
It’s no surprise that public and private owners continually look for new ways to build faster, better, and cheaper. Not only does this stimulate new approaches to contracting for and delivering construction projects, it’s revived some old concepts, as well. Design-Build projects, for example, have brought back the master-builder concept. These trends shift greater responsibility for cost, quality, and time to the contractor, necessitating changes in requests for proposal and contract documents. TRAUNER stays at the forefront of these industry changes, performing extensive research and helping clients with:
- Risk Analysis for Projects Using Design-Build or Alternative Contracting Methods
- Development of RFPs for Two-Step Design-Build Construction Projects
- Selection Criteria for Innovative Project Delivery Systems
- Long-term Warranty Provisions for Selected Products, or Components of Construction Projects
- Pre-qualification procedures for construction
- Performance Specifications and Criteria for Design-Build and Warranty projects
- Special Provisions for Bidding and Managing Time
- Special Quality Control and Quality Assurance Requirements and Acceptance Plans
- Modifications to Standard Provisions for Construction Contracts to Address Innovative Contracting and Project Delivery Methods
