The School District Job

Fifteen years of kitchens and additions, and now this: the elementary school two blocks from your shop is renovating its restrooms and locker rooms, and the district's facilities manager — a former client — urged you to bid. The plans are simple. The money is good, six figures once the alternates are counted. Your estimator is excited. Everything about the job looks like work you have done a hundred times, and almost none of the rules you know apply to it unchanged.