The best way to melt a dispute is ...

The best way to melt a dispute is through a voluntary payment rather than legal combat. yet this widely held philosophy has not always prevailed, particularly in the resolution of construction-related disputes.

Twenty-five years ago the design professions ask fored the American Arbitration Association to formulate a special risk of rules for the construction industry. The expectation was that arbitration would be swifter, les expensive and les disruptive of relationships between the parties to the dispute.

To a large expansion that hope has been realized, although