Under the traditional design-bid-build routine, the homeowner negotiates separately with a designer/architect and a general contractor who employs subcontractors to complete the work. This process creates two separate lines of accountability and makes the owner, rather than the designer, responsible for ensuring that the general contractor adheres to the design specifications.

...I'd like to imagine that in a series of comical events, you somehow opened up macinsiders, created a new thread and accidentally entered a paragraph here instead of in Microsoft Word while writing an essay on contractor accountability in Texas.

I took the liberty of editing your paragraph, ran it through Grammarly for plagiarism, and it came up as a 100% match from http://dearthdesign.com/process/. You might want to think about this before you hand in your essay.

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