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Say Goodbye to Project Fatigue:
How to Keep Construction Projects Moving and Managers Motivated
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Remodeling projects—particularly with older buildings—
rarely go exactly as planned. Every structure, electrical
system, and plumbing fixture could be hiding hazards
and unexpected costs. Termites. Leaks. Rot. Dangerous
or incompatible infrastructure. Some of these discoveries
need to be addressed before contractors can proceed
with the original project, but you can't know about them
until someone is actually on site doing demolition or
prepping other work.
The discoveries themselves don't contribute to project
fatigue, but the typical process for approving change
orders does. You have workers on site ready to take
care of the problem and keep the project moving, but
they can't start the new work until the change order is
approved, and that often requires sign off from senior
management, who may want detailed explanations of the
unexpected costs and justification for the new work. The
back and forth can add days to a change that should've
only taken hours.
Once again, a lot of the frustration and fatigue is rooted
in the knowledge that there has to be a better way. The
overwhelming majority of change orders get approved
because the work simply has to be done, so is all that
process really necessary?
Give your construction managers
more financial autonomy
