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Direct Contractors In California Should Take Steps Now To Reduce Exposure For Unpaid Wages By Subcontractors

Construction and Infrastructure Law

AB 1701 “does not prohibit a direct contractor or subcontractor at any tier from establishing by contract or enforcing any otherwise lawful remedies against a subcontractor it hires for liability created…” Accordingly, direct contractors across California should take a closer look at the terms of their agreements with subcontractors.

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Net Zero Pledges by Businesses are Fraught with Risk

Green Building Law Update

There would have to be some agreement, that does not exist today of what it means to be net zero (e.g., And maybe that includes an agreement that zero is more like the historical absence in the number of columns counted by Sumerian scribes 4,000 years ago than a modern laboratory measure of non-detect?

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Best Practice Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

This proposal is subsequently evaluated, and agreement is reached on quantities, time, performance period, etc., After agreement, a fixed-price bilateral order is prepared. This page last modified 06/21/2016 16:00:09. through discussions and negotiations. Some integral non-pre-priced work may be included in the order.

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Between A Rock and A Hard Place: How the Severin Doctrine May Relate to Your Statute of Limitations Period

Best Practices Construction Law

Murphy , (May 18, 2016), the Federal Circuit recently held that, for purposes of the six-year limitations period of the Contract Disputes Act (CDA), a contractor’s claim did not accrue when a terminated subcontractor stopped its work. In Kellogg Brown & Root Servs., million; and.

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LEED Credit is Designed to Eliminate Illegal Wood in Buildings

Green Building Law Update

This new pilot credit also leaves in place the 2016 pilot credit MRpc102 Legal Wood, that despite all the discussion has not been a market mover. Certified by a third-party legality verification program (see Annex 3). The European Union has similar timber regulation. including that specify the country of origin.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

The European Union has gone in another direction with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation , applicable as of May 2018, updating and modernizing the principles enshrined in the 1995 Data Protection Directive which guarantee individual privacy rights in one’s personal data including “the right to be forgotten.”

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2018 IgCC is Not in Use Anywhere. A Detailed Analysis of Why?

Green Building Law Update

But arising from a 2014 confidential agreement signed by the U.S. Moreover, USGBC should end its collaboration with ASHRAE and others under the 2014 agreement, on the development of a 2021 LEED v5. The previous versions of the IgCC were developed utilizing ICC’s respected Code Development Process as part of the ICC Family of Codes.

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