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088 - The Spearin Doctrine: Who Pays When the Drawings Are Wrong
The Spearin doctrine decides who pays when work is built exactly as drawn, inspected, approved, and it fails anyway.
Most people in construction already understand this rule without knowing it has a name. If the owner hands you a detailed set of documents telling you exactly what to build and how, the owner is promising those documents will work. Follow them, and the failure is not yours.
This episode walks the test that decides every version of the argument, the three ways a contractor forfeits the protection, and the gap between two very different promises where real project money quietly…
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