These big multi-family buildings are very complicated, and you need a very well-trained

crew to pull that off without us finding something later.

I have a favorite phrase, with the last thing you want is lawyers doing your quality control.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion with building industry

professionals and other folks. This is Senior Editor Patrick McCone. Today I'm joined by

attorney Tyler Birding. You can find the

Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Home Building podcast at findhomebuilding.com

slash podcast. You can leave feedback and ask questions there too. Tyler, thanks very much for being on

the show. You're welcome. Thanks for having me. Can you please tell me about your law firm? You have a specialty that I think our listeners will find interesting.

Yeah, Burning Weil is about a 35-year-old law firm that we mostly handle construction-related issues, mostly on behalf of owners of buildings,

and we have been litigating and doing that for, like I said, about 35 years.

How did you get into dealing with building problems and defects?

I have a background personally in construction of my own, and not professionally, but just doing

things, building things. And when I got into law, I happened to start with a law firm that did a lot of

defense of surety companies, companies that bond contractors. So I did that for about six years.

And then I got into another firm that began representing owners of buildings.

And we began looking at defects in buildings and construction failures and litigating those

when they couldn't negotiate a repair. In an introductory email, you mentioned that you expect the defects, construction defects,

to be a bigger issue in the near future.

Can you please tell me why you think that is?

Yeah.

In the last three or four years, with the pandemic, creating a supply chain problems and a shortage of trained labor, they, and in the face of a hot

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