Haven’t signed an AIA contract yet, and it’s questionable if I would. I haven’t seen one, but heard plenty of horror stories about them.
I’ve dived head first into the shallow end of the PW pool this year,

, and it’s been an experience for sure. The admin work to be the prime contractor is unbelievable. I can’t physically swing it, not enough hours in a day for a small shop like mine. I’m only prime on one project, and that is as an electrical contractor, not a general. It’s a generator for medical clinic.
I’m sub on several other PW jobs, and the paperwork is still pretty deep even for a sub. I do a lot of job walks, even as a sub, but I skip the bid openings generally. Don’t have time, and if I’m a listed sub, they’ll tell me.
Haven’t protested, but I had one protest me. That was funny.
I might want to start going to some bid openings though. I found out from a GC that I am subbing for, that on a different project that he listed me on, the winning GC also listed me. But when I heard nothing from him for weeks, I called him up and asked him what’s up. Told me he was using someone else. I believe the guy is using doesn’t even have a license, let alone DIR registration, insurance, etc. I notified the awarding agency.


We’ll see what happens.
Glad the GC told me I was listed, or I never would have k own. And apparently the “electrician” he is using is messing up some serious stuff.