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This article looks at how owners and builders can minimize risk for both private and public projects. A construction contract is the primary source for managing risk for a project of any size.

When it comes to big buildings, the suburbs have been where the action is. The largest projects and transactions in the past twelve months have been in the Portland area's western suburbs.

In 2010, Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey started WeWork, a company that provides shared work spaces for startups, small businesses, freelancers and entrepreneurs. WeWork has been remarkably successful. After only eight years since opening its first…