Work with Kit
Expert consulting or in-depth training—solutions to help you secure fair construction contracts, protect your assets, and boost cash flow. Let us guide you every step of the way.
Consulting for your Team or Business: Virtual or In-Person
Kit's consulting service offers expert guidance tailored to help your team navigate the complexities of construction contracts with confidence. This service equips your business with the skills to evaluate, analyze, and negotiate contracts that are fair and balanced, minimizing risk and protecting your company's assets.
In working with your team, Kit focuses on critical areas such as defining clear scopes of work to prevent disputes, negotiating better payment terms to improve cash flow, and addressing the complexities of indemnity clauses and insurance requirements. Kit also helps your business effectively manage changes and damages in contracts, ensuring you’re prepared for any potential risks. Additionally, you’ll gain insights into resolving disputes through methods like negotiation, mediation, or litigation, and explore ways to handle force majeure and termination clauses, safeguarding your company from unforeseen events.
Kit’s consulting approach is highly interactive and tailored to your specific business needs. By reviewing your current contracts, identifying areas of risk, and developing strategic solutions, Kit ensures your company is equipped to negotiate stronger, more secure agreements that align with your goals and protect your financial health.
2-Day Course: Understanding and Negotiating Construction Contracts
The Understanding and Negotiating Construction Contracts course is a focused two-day workshop designed to equip private sector construction companies, material suppliers, and field services providers with the tools to evaluate, analyze, and negotiate contracts more effectively. It aims to raise awareness of common risks in contract terms and conditions, offering strategies to reduce or eliminate these risks and safeguard your company’s assets.
Over the two days, participants will dive into critical areas such as defining clear scopes of work to prevent disputes, negotiating better payment terms to improve cash flow, and addressing risks associated with indemnity clauses and insurance requirements. You'll also gain insights into managing changes and damages in contracts, as well as how to approach dispute resolution effectively, whether through negotiation, mediation, or litigation.
The course also covers essential topics like force majeure and termination clauses, helping you understand how to protect your company from unforeseen events and contract cancellations.
Throughout the workshop, attendees will engage with real-life examples, reviewing actual contracts from their own businesses to identify risky terms and develop more secure negotiation strategies. With over 40 handouts and in-depth discussions, participants will leave with practical, actionable skills to enhance contract management and protect their business.
Kit Werremeyer is the Owner and President of Southernstar Consultants LLC, specializing in expert guidance on construction contracts and negotiations. With over 45 years of global experience in the construction and engineering industries, Kit has worked with major corporations to secure better contract terms, minimize risk, and protect assets. He is also the author of Understanding and Negotiating Construction Contracts and a seasoned instructor, offering practical training to empower construction professionals.
