Contractor Cannot Recover for Extra Work Performed without Change Order Approved by Authorized Officials

On January 12, 2012, in Newsletter Article, by Kent Holland

A design-build contractor that entered into a fixed-price contract to upgrade the heating, air conditioning and ventilation (HVAC) system in college dormitories satisfactorily performed all the work it was contracted to do, but also performed significant additional work to correct problems with the existing HVAC system that had not been identified at the outset of [...]