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The Real Lemon in the Bunch: Understanding Pay-If-Paid Clauses in Construction Contracts

Best Practices Construction Law

Contractors have a means of shifting the risk of non-payment by the owner to its subcontractor by including a certain payment provisions in the subcontract agreement. In Universal Concrete Products Corp. The enforceability of these types of clauses may be limited by your particular state or jurisdiction. However, in Thomas J.

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Sage Intacct Construction Brings Financial Management to the Cloud

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Financials can be sorted, viewed, and filtered by project type, cost code, project manager, labor & material, and self-performed work vs. subcontracted work, among many other options.

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LEAN construction cost estimating

Job Order Contracting

Put another way, a scope of work is division of construction items to be performed under a contract or subcontract in the completion of a project, typically broken out into specific tasks with deadlines. It’s no surprise to anyone that errors and omissions are largely the cause of cost creep, change orders, and general dissatisfaction.

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The Real Lemon in the Bunch: Understanding Pay-If-Paid Clauses

Best Practices Construction Law

Contractors have a means of shifting the risk of non-payment by the owner to its subcontractor by including a certain payment provisions in the subcontract agreement. In Universal Concrete Products Corp. For the legal practitioner, Universal Concrete Products again reminds us of the importance of legal research in our profession.

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Job Order Contracting - Untitled Article

Job Order Contracting

Put another way, a scope of work is division of construction items to be performed under a contract or subcontract in the completion of a project, typically broken out into specific tasks with deadlines. It’s no surprise to anyone that errors and omissions are largely the cause of cost creep, change orders, and general dissatisfaction.

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#66:  Labor Inefficiency Costs: Who Pays? How Much?

NH Construction Law

Among the possible reasons a project might cost more to build than anticipated is diminished labor productivity occasioned by unforeseen space or time constraints. In Fraser , the subcontractor’s arrangement with the CM was fixed price rather than cost-plus except as to change orders and extras. See Town of Bedford v.

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Job Order Contracting - Untitled Article

Job Order Contracting

Put another way, a scope of work is a set of construction items to be performed under a contract or subcontract in the completion of a project, typically broken out into specific tasks with deadlines, to achieve a well defined result. A certain degree of change management is also required. Summary and the Path Forward.