A number of design and environmental professionals seem to struggle with change orders, finding it difficult to submit wholly legitimate payment requests to their clients. While experts could probably offer any number of explanations for this situation, debating the “why” is not particularly productive or important. The fact is that changes often are necessary in order to provide a complete professional service (especially a complete geoprofessional service), and clients have an obligation to pay for the services they require and receive. This updated document gives you guidelines on managing change orders.

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