Modern urban construction has become an increasingly complex affair. The modern construction manager must act as conductor of an orchestra comprised of temperamental musicians continually arriving and leaving the stage while the composer re-writes the score. Whether music or cacophony emerges is the question. The gap separating skilled artist from pedestrian journeyman is the difference between symphony and cacophony.
Brookfield Multiplex Construction Canada Ltd. v. 21 Avenue Road Building Group Inc.
2016 CarswellOnt 7546
Ontario Superior Court of Justice