From the general contractor’s seat, this session is a tight, field‑ready playbook for upstream and downstream terminations that starts where the outcome is often decided—at contract negotiation—and carries through execution to finish the job without a wrongful default. From the contracting perspective, we discuss how to approach “auto‑conversion” to a termination for convenience, tighten default triggers, build meaningful notice‑and‑cure, and hard‑wire a damages framework that preserves wrongful‑termination remedies at law while defining, if convenience applies, a fair cost‑plus‑reasonable‑profit formula (with attorney fees) and clear exclusions. In delivery, we explain how to build a substantial‑compliance record—cure plans, mitigation, contemporaneous documentation—so you avoid default, and, if terminated, position the termination as wrongful. Turning downstream, we focus on avoiding wrongful subcontractor terminations through strict process and good faith, and lay out lower‑risk alternatives that keep work moving and protect entitlement: partial convenience and deductive changes to descope, targeted supplementation and resequencing, joint/direct pay, and surety step‑in. You’ll leave with checklists and protocols to choose the right termination lever, document it cleanly, and credibly calculate damages, with the overall goal of finishing scope and avoiding large claims.
