DRA Articles:

 

The Six Phases of a Public Works Construction Project

David's take on the differences in construction project outcomes as inspired by the list of construction project phases by Winford E. Holland.

 

Construction Industry Documentation and Record-Keeping

We had a project recently in which the contractor "misplaced" a large number of the project documents. I put together these notes on record keeping in construction projects as part of a large report on why the contractor's claims for additional money should be denied. In the end, our client won the case of course.

 

NO CONSTRUCTION CLAIMS - GUARANTEED!

In December 2009, Sol Kutner and Troy Sutton wrote an article for ForensisGroup regarding the need for good documentation in construction projects. In light of a few recent projects that were vastly underwhelming in the available project documents to support the Contractor's claims, we thought it was a good time to revisit the article and re-publish it here.

 

Making Short Work of Diagramming the Critical Path

This is a reprint of an article that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Sunday, May 26, 1985 - when David Ross was a vice president with Jack & Cohen Builders Inc. in Palo Alto. At that time, his company was at the cutting edge of using technology in construction projects by running "project management" software on an Apple Lisa computer.

 

Links to other Web Sites

This is a page of links to a wide variety of interesting web sites that have kindly put a link to David Ross Associates on their site.