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December 2008
Smart Contracts for Small Projects



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Demand for a workable insurance solution for small brownfield stakeholders has prompted the risk management and engineering industries to develop a more efficient approach for cleaning up small brownfields and for providing stakeholders liability protection. This approach can work for remediation projects under $3,000,000.

Remediation costs are a type of construction cost required for site preparation. The level of volatility of construction cost overruns during site preparation is determined largely by unknown conditions at the site and the performance of the remediation contractor. These are quantifiable risks that can be assessed by additional site characterization and controlled through performance-based contracts, respectively. ...


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