by Michael Copas on September 4, 2009
Filed Under: Interviews, Bob Halliday, Contract Administrators
Bob Halliday of Mitchell Architects
Bob Halliday is a partner with Mitchell Architects of North Bay and Huntsville in central Ontario. He has been a contract administrator for some 20 years and in that time has handled projects from $100,000 to $30 million. He has experienced 5 or 6 different types of contracts. Bob, by his own admission is fiercely competitive, and wants all the work, even though he knows that is highly unrealistic. He also hates evaluating and fighting over change quotations.
How did you get started in contract administration?
Over 20 years ago, during a brief period between regular paychecks and having just moved back to North Bay from Toronto, I met Paul Mitchell, my current partner, on the street and we had a brief chat about what I was doing. In no time flat, I was the CA for the construction/renovation of the relocation of the Ontario Correctional Services head office to North Bay. This was a government "fast track" (read Kiss of Death) project that started at $16,000,000 and after two years doubled in cost with over 800 Site Instructions and 750 Change Orders. Probably the quintessential definition of "Baptism by Fire". What this did for me was to force me into a regimen to successfully track site instructions, changes, and change orders, (thank you Statslog!) and to be fully immersed in a difficult and complicated and often combative construction process. Problem Solving 101 to say the least.
Read the complete interview and see Bob's CV by clicking here. ♦♦♦