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Disadvantages <br />• plans and specs — hard to manage contract if don't do plans and specs <br />• administrative support may suffer or would need to be duplicated in the new division. <br />• construction issues come up — need the person involved in design to answer questions in <br />the field. <br />• More costly to work out issues when construction is occurring than on paper between <br />planning and implementation. <br />• expertise with legal issues with respect to contract administration that currently exist on <br />project teams not as accessible if in separate division <br />• A bulk of LA's in one unit might be more susceptible to budget cutting than if spread out <br />• The diversity on project teams to provide LA as well as civil engineering expertise will be <br />lost and is needed for stormwater, geotech, street, wastewater and other projects. <br />• more difficult to tap construction and civil engineering expertise that exists on project <br />teams if design and construction LA's in new Division <br />October 19, 2000 23 <br />