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"Additionally, when your in the middle of creating your building, the owner doesn’t come in and say “actually, I want this apartment complex to also have a suite of luxury condors on every odd floor”."

From what I've heard from people working in the construction industry, this sort of thing ("variations" I gather they're called) happens more than you'd think.



A better example would be owner saying “actually, I want a 5-level underground parking below my building”.


At the same time the plans typically allow quite a lot of flexibility and are made in a way to allow late decisions on many aspects.

But then there are, of course, all those late decisions causing major delay.




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