Disentanglement

Abstract

Construction entangles various people and things that must be disentangled for the building to exist as “property.”28 As contract administrators, architects oversee these transactions, acting as independent adjudicators to regulate the flow: the contractor must build to the specifications that are contractually outlined in the schedule of works according to the outlined timeline; the client must in turn disburse a given amount of funds at a time agreed in advance....