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For many years, most construction work was done on a printed contract agreement
offered at hefty cost by one of the architectural, engineering or trade associations.
If a change was needed in the printed form, you had to write between the lines or
make notes in the margin or attach a separate sheet. That made for a messy construction
agreement and resulted in more than a few disputes.
Now
that nearly everyone in business has a computer and a word processor (like MS Word
or WordPad), it makes more sense to buy construction contracts in digital form,
either on disk or by download off the Web. You could call this form of contractor
software "Generation II" in the development of modern Pennsylvania construction
agreements. This was clearly a step in the right direction. It's easy to make changes,
additions and deletions in a digital form. But there's still a problem: flexibility.
You're stuck with whatever boilerplate contract clauses the contract's author considered
important. No stock contract covers even a small fraction of the thousands of possibilities
that make every construction project unique. Worse, stock contracts seldom explain
what each clause means or when each clause should be used. That's still left up
to you.
Pennsylvania Construction Contract Writer is "Generation III" in Pennsylvania construction
contractor software. CCW isn't a digital form you change with a word processor --
though CCW includes a word processor. CCW isn't a stock contract in portable document
format (PDF) – though CCW output can be either RTF or PDF. CCW is best understood
as an interview. Answer the questions to write a contract that fits your job precisely.
Pennsylvania Construction Contract Writer helps you select from a library of over
a thousand Pennsylvania construction contract clauses. Just answer the interview
questions to draft a letter-perfect contract that fits your job perfectly and complies
precisely with Pennsylvania law.
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