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You Should Not Contract With Your Environmental Consultant

Green Building Law Update

In an effort to mitigate risk you should not contract directly with an environmental consultant, but rather your attorney should contract with that consultant. What is described here is much more than simply good drafting of consultant contacts (e.g., And it may be much more than that.

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Hiring a Safety Consultant to Handle your ISNetworld® Account

Safety Services Company

Here are some tips and red flags to look out for: Avoid ISNetworld® consultants who only provide cookie cutter, downloadable safety programs and no real safety advice. There are many levels of ISNetworld® consulting available in the market place. Check your potential consultant’s references and reputation.

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How to Avoid Disputes in Construction

Construction Marketing

You should actually draft an agreement that states what each party will do and the action that should be taken against any party that fails to comply with the laid out rules. Before the agreement is signed by all the parties, you should ensure that the document has been reviewed by a lawyer. Discuss Potential Risks in Advance.

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DD# 80: P6 Deep Dive: Underutilized Feature in P6

Cassell Construction Estimating

Work Products and Documents. Work Products and Documents is an extremely useful and highly underutilized feature in Primavera P6. The work products and documents functionality provides a detailed list of references associated with the project. These documents are divided into two distinct areas, work products, and documents.

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Coordinating specifications with an owner’s Division 00

Construction Specifier

In other instances, mixing different items can have adverse results, and may need expert guidance (the author acknowledges the advice and comments on drafts of this article from Gerard Cavaluzzi, Esq., vice-president and general counsel at Kennedy/Jenks Consultants, Inc., Consequences of improperly coordinated construction documents.

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Closing the Gap Between Buyers and Builders

Pro Builder

For years, we as builders have been trained by industry consultants to think like manufacturers, create a process, and stick to it if we want to be profitable. Variances: Errors & omissions via hand-offs + incorrect plans/details + managing multiple documents. Time: Meetings + waiting + interest/carry cost + opportunity lost.

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Illinois Federal District Court Enforces Partially Executed Agreement to Arbitrate

Constructlaw

SGLC Consulting LLC , No. Subcontractor Spirtas Worldwide LLC filed a Miller Act claim against contractor SGLC Consulting LLC to recover the cost of materials provided and labor performed on a project for the U.S. United States ex rel. Spirtas Worldwide, LLC v. 3:21-CV-00182-MAB, 2022 U.S. LEXIS 105589; 2022 WL 2116451 (S.D.