Construction Law

MARCH 8, 2024

billion highways contract. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details. If you don't have an account, you can get free access to the news on this site and receive a free newsletter on Fridays by creating a Newsletter account.

Roads 40

Roads Accounting News Transportation 40

Construction Law

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Cost plus contracts are expected to come under a harsh spotlight in a review of HS2’s soaring costs to be carried out by cost consultants Gardiner & Theobald (G&T). Meanwhile, HS2 contract awards and changes will come under increased government scrutiny, according to rail and HS2 minister Huw Merriman.

Contract 40

Contract Accounting News Consulting 40

Construction Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The High Court has rejected an application to be able to continue as a director from one of the directors disqualified over illegally rigging bids for demolition and asbestos removal contracts in 2023. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

Bidding 40

Bidding Accounting News Site 40

Construction Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

National Highways has published a Contract Notice for a transformation delivery partner to “provide a centralised vehicle for transformation and change” to deliver efficiency targets in capital and operational spending during its third Roads Investment Strategy period (RIS3) from 2025 to 2030. See the panel to the right.

Contract 40

Contract Accounting News Roads 40

Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It is critical to lifecycle management of the built environment and the support of relationship centric contracts among architects, general contractors, building owners and other stakeholders which enable and promote early engagement, alignment of interests, and an integrated decision-making body.

Renovating 215

Renovating Procurement Construction News 215

Construction Enquirer

MAY 11, 2023

Property website React News revealed that sister company McLaren Property and its partner Topland are close to securing a £160m funding deal with investment giant Blackstone for the latest phases of The Oaks campus.

Deals 92

Deals News Security Contract 92

Construction Law

APRIL 2, 2024

News Our news round up looks at Birmingham City Council on the verge of starting the judicial review application to try and reverse a government refusal to approve a major highways contract; a warning to avoid ‘group think’ in major public sector project delivery; and a new framework to promote the use of artificial intelligence in project delivery.

Construction 52

Construction Liability Risk Contract 52

Construction Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

News Our regular news round up features cost plus contracts being blamed for HS2 cost overruns; details of a new Transformation Delivery Partner contract from National Highways; and a Civil Nuclear Roadmap that backs a revived nuclear building programme.

Construction 52

Construction Insurance Procurement Drafting 52

Construction Law

JANUARY 4, 2024

National Highways has published a Contract Notice for a transformation delivery partner to “provide a centralised vehicle for transformation and change” to deliver efficiency targets in capital and operational spending during its third Roads Investment Strategy period (RIS3) from 2025 to 2030. See the panel to the right.

Contract 40

Contract Accounting News Roads 40

Construction Enquirer

MAY 16, 2023

The scaffold trade body’s 240+ contracting member firms recorded a reduction in RIDDORs of 90 in 2021, to 67 in 2022 – representing a 26% RIDDOR accident rate reduction in 2022 (with a 63% reduction in the 16-20 age bracket), despite a 10% rise of scaffolding workforce numbers, to 17,315 operatives. It’s great news for the sector.”

Accidents 93

Accidents Contractors Safety Regulation 93

Viewpoint Construction Technology

APRIL 17, 2018

Viewpoint recently published an e-book in collaboration with Construction Dive that outlines key ways to prepare for the new revenue recognition standards in the construction industry. Identify the Contract. This first step should be pretty easy for most contractors, since legally-binding contracts are already part of their processes.

Accounting 163

Accounting Contract Viewpoint Cash Flow 163

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 8, 2019

Collaborative Construction Contracting & LEAN Project Delivery. Robust collaborative construction contracting and productive, on-demand LEAN project delivery is readily available in two forms; integrated project delivery (IPD), for major new construction, and Job Order Contracting (JOC), for repair, renovation, and minor new construction.

Contract 100

Contract Construction Procurement Renovating 100

Pro Builder

MAY 11, 2023

In this project tracker page, we're collecting the latest news in the modular-sphere and sharing it with you. And for all your offsite construction news, read it here on Utopia. The company has not yet announced what will happen to its existing contracts and partnerships, or what will become of its intellectual property and technology."

NAHB 98

NAHB News Site Housing 98

Construction Business Owner

JUNE 2, 2021

The good news: you’ve landed a huge contract with a ton of potential. The bad news: it requires AIA billing, and you’re not sure where to start. Take the Fear Out of AIA Billing. Foundation Software Answers the AIA Billing Questions You’ve Been Too Afraid to Ask. Greg Ragsdale. Wed, 06/02/2021 - 11:14. and “how do I do it?”

AIA 293

AIA Virgin Islands Puerto Rico Samoa 293

Construction Enquirer

MAY 15, 2023

Just last week Costain received news that its major central reserve contract for the M62 across the Pennines had been suddenly axed on the eve of main works starting. The management changes come during challenging times for the division with growing uncertainty about the pipeline of National Highways work.

Budgeting 73

Budgeting Budget News Accounting 73

Construction Equipment

MARCH 25, 2020

The Ford F-150 pickup has joined the coronavirus fight, a report from Fox News says. Ford is helping 3M redesign the powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) that it makes for first responders and health care workers to protect them from contracting the virus while treating patients. The device…

News 52

News Contract 52

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The UPB and its update frequency should be noted in the Job Order Contract. Engineering News-Record (ENR). . • Accept unit cost data with field verification of actual quantities, provided the unit price book (UPB) is locally researched and current. The gas and electric indexes started in 1924, and the water indexes started in 1957.

Estimating 197

Estimating Comparison Electrical Organization 197

Construction Marketing Ideas

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In the most recent post, I related to a problem of perceived betrayal of trust by someone who I and one of my colleagues had spoken with extensively as we prepared to launch Ontario Construction News. We discovered he had instead contracted with a new (and surprise) competitor, and I felt that we had failed […].

IDEA 66

IDEA News Contract Construction 66

Best Practices Construction Law

MARCH 20, 2020

You’ve watched the daily news reports. I am not going to even attempt to describe what has occurred over the past week. You’ve read it online. You’ve listened to the radio. And you’ve even had to adjust your own schedule to accommodate school closings.

Contractors 124

Contractors Claims Legal Mobility 124

Construction Law

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Major failings in the procurement and project management processes have been highlighted by Lord Hardie’s report (see News) as responsible for what must be one of the biggest infrastructure procurement screw ups in Scottish history.

Procurement 52

Procurement Transportation Contract Infrastructure 52

Construction Marketing Ideas

APRIL 16, 2019

A few hours ago, we ran into a snag with the launch in less than three weeks of Ontario Construction News as a daily electronic newspaper. The person we had arranged to contract as our editor bailed, saying he couldn’t take the risk of a part-time initial assignment because he would have to forgo current […].

Risk 66

Risk IDEA News Contract 66

Viewpoint Construction Technology

OCTOBER 16, 2018

You have no shortage of ways to consume media these days, but we’ve found podcasts can be a great way to learn something new, hear from interesting people or keep up with the latest construction news while you’re commuting to work, exercising or cooking dinner. When you’re short on time, that’s a win, right? CONEXPO-CON/AGG Radio.

Construction 160

Construction St. Louis Viewpoint News 160

Construction Law

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Lessons must obviously be learned for future procurements; but none of them are new. Appeal court decision shows risks of bespoke contract terms Cheryl Ferguson of Dentons UK and Middle East LLP provides a round up of recent decisions relating to adjudication.

Procurement 52

Procurement Construction Insurance Legal 52

BD+C

MAY 24, 2019

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has released six revised contract documents designed for interior construction projects. The new interior contract documents will allow architects to better understand risks and responsibilities associated with designing building interiors, according to an AIA news release.

AIA 40

AIA Documentation Contract News 40

Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

SharePoint makes creating, managing, and sharing files, data, news, and resources a breeze. . 3: Contract Management. Getting your legal ducks in a row is paramount in construction, which is why it is important to have robust contract management workflows. . SharePoint . Dropbox Sign . 4: Performance Tracking.

Autodesk 105

Autodesk Construction Contract Documentation 105

Construction Marketing Ideas

MARCH 6, 2018

The challenge: Setting up a payment mechanism service for a writer I’ve contracted in Pakistan, who will help generate some of the mass of content required for our various regional construction news websites in the U.S. As I write this post, I am on ‘hold’ with a payment processing service. and Canada.

News 59

News Contract Construction Management 59

Pro Builder

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Disaster Recovery through Job Order Contracting. When disaster strikes your community, job order contracting is a reliable, efficient way to fund rebuilding efforts. It seems every day another natural disaster is in the news. Most JOC contracts are for a year or more, resulting in steady, predictable income for months at a time.

Contract 108

Contract Bidding Negotiation Income 108

Construction Marketing

APRIL 9, 2014

What type of construction contracts were most frequent in the past year? The top three most common types of construction contracts over the past year included design build (25%), construction management (25%) and lump sum (22%). Association News Best Practices Construction Construction Marketing Lead Generation Surveys'

Construction 222

Construction Contract BIM News 222

Pro Builder

JULY 15, 2020

Homebuyer Demand Falls Back as Mortgage Rates Hit New Low. Last week, average contract interest rates dropped, total mortgage application volume grew, and homebuyer demand fell. It almost doesn’t sound like news anymore: Mortgage rates fell to another record low last week, and that reinvigorated refinance demand. cbroderick.

Contract 52

Contract News 52

Construction Law

APRIL 1, 2022

Two pieces of news however may have sent some alarm bells ringing. The justification – or smoke screen – for considering this apparent reversal seems to be a desire to reweight government contracts in favour of smaller suppliers who the Minister fears are being squeezed out by larger suppliers.

Procurement 52

Procurement Contract News Office 52

Pro Builder

JUNE 4, 2021

In Boise, Idaho, one of the hottest housing markets in the country, Steve Martinez opened up the financial books of his construction company, Tradewinds General Contracting Inc., to Bloomberg News to reveal the magnitude of the cost surge.

Materials 98

Materials Idaho Foundation Housing 98

HardHatChat

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

As commercial construction news reports say business continues to pick up, we are happy to see some new faces around the office at Englewood Construction. That’s right; we are adding staff to our national commercial general contracting firm in what has been a very robust period of activity.

Commercial 259

Commercial News Retail Construction 259

HardHatChat

APRIL 16, 2013

As noted early this year, 2012 was a great year for Englewood Construction as we saw our commercial general contracting activity increase immensely. The first few months of this year have proven to be extremely active in new commercial construction projects. Above, a crew in Williston, ND works on the Williston Brewing Co.

Commercial 214

Commercial Chicago Construction News 214

Construction Law

JULY 7, 2021

The headline news from the most recent Arcadis survey of global disputes is that the sums involved in disputes have more than doubled but the number of disputes has stayed about the same. More than a few contractors we have spoken to over the years have prided themselves for leaving contracts ‘unused’ and ‘in a drawer’. Nick Barrett.

Risk 52

Risk Contract Management Maine 52

Construction Enquirer

JULY 10, 2023

It is the latter division which has been battling long term contracts with hyper inflation, schemes priced pre-covid which ultimately has impaired the groups cash-flow. Nottingham based contractor J Tomlinson is heading for administration.

Cash Flow 98

Cash Flow Accounting Office Finance 98

Pro Builder

MARCH 10, 2022

The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances of $647,200 or less dropped from 4.15% to 4.09% for loans with a 20% down payment following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, causing a subsequent 9% jump in refinance demand last week, CNBC reports. Thu, 03/10/2022 - 10:11. Affordability.

Finance 52

Finance News Contract Office 52

Construction Marketing Ideas

APRIL 22, 2017

Way back when, in 2005, I envisaged a network of regional construction news sites and eletters serving defined markets. I contracted with offshore developers to build the site […].

News 48

News Contract Site Construction 48