Hot take · 49:52
// THE QUOTE
“I had a university client say to me one day we need them more than they need us”
— Travis Rudolph · EllisDon Corporation
Punchy market-power line that stands alone: clients need contractors more than the reverse right now, you can't bid everything, and a bad job is hard to recover from.
Full episode at 49:52How EllisDon, Pomerleau & Bird De-Risk Projects: IPD and Early Contractor Involvement in Atlantic Canada ▸
THE LESSON THIS CLIP CARRIES
Larger GCs justify higher overhead on collaborative work by bringing constructibility, logistics and research a small GC can't.
“they all got these different departments in the background that might help out with constructibility or construction Sciences”
THE CHAPTER IT LIVES IN
Backlog, selectivity and choosing teams
37:20
Clips like this, every two weeks.
SOURCE: 49:52 of How EllisDon, Pomerleau & Bird De-Risk Projects: IPD and Early Contractor Involvement in Atlantic Canada