Liam said, ignoring the PDF. "Stop looking at the contract. Start looking at the mud."
Liam turned. "The procurement strategy is a beautiful PDF. But steel doesn't care about PDFs. Steel cares about diesel, detours, and dignity."
Liam had been a Quantity Surveyor for twelve years. He knew the theory —the JCT contracts, the NEC3 option clauses, the CESMM4 rules of measurement. He could recite the RICS professional standards in his sleep. But theory, he was about to learn, doesn't stop a leaking roof.