Construction Lawyer

AUGUST 6, 2014

Our recent post about the Beacon case in California where two architectural firms were held to owe a duty to condominium purchasers for design defects has now been discussed (hopefully clarified to some degree) in a more recent California appellate decision. This was different here, where the engineer had no such control.

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Construction Marketing

DECEMBER 27, 2021

General Liability Insurance. This type of coverage will protect your company from various liabilities , including injury claims, and cover medical expenses. General liability also protects businesses if they cause damage to a customer’s property or if any product installations go awry, like faulty plumbing that causes leaking.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Worries about legal liability have long dogged the sustainable building movement, but insurance expert Karen Erger (Locton Companies) and attorney Eric Singer (Ice Miller LLP) say sustainability lawsuits are caused by the same types of issues that have always prompted clients to sue AEC firms. read more. "The

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ENR Construction

MARCH 22, 2018

As multiple nor’easters bore down on the East Coast in the last 10 weeks, architects and engineers worried about more than the physical impact to their projects.

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Construction Lawyer

MAY 7, 2013

Design professionals doing business in Florida need to adjust their contracts to comply with this new legislation to obtain this protection. As a practical matter, it is highly unusual for clients to bring an action against individual design professionals working for the business unless they are also the owner of that business.

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GCP Applied Technologies

MARCH 14, 2018

Before delegating design, consult your manufacturer. Delegated design—the process by which a principal architect, engineer, or for the sake of this discussion, a design professional of record (DPR) delegates certain structural elements to the contractor, sub-contractor, etc. Why delegate any portion of the design at all?

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GCP Applied Technologies

MARCH 14, 2018

Before delegating design, consult your manufacturer. Delegated design—the process by which a principal architect, engineer, or for the sake of this discussion, a design professional of record (DPR) delegates certain structural elements to the contractor, sub-contractor, etc. Why delegate any portion of the design at all?

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Construction Lawyer

MAY 30, 2012

He is a partner in the law firm of Sabo & Zahn, concentrating in construction law and representing owners, contractors, architects, developers, engineers and other parties in the construction process. Sabo & Zahn LLC is an Illinois Limited Liability Company. Unlimited liability for designers and contractors. Disclaimer.

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BD+C

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Navigating architectural challenges—from 'unbuildable' to unbelievable 0 qpurcell Mon, 10/30/2023 - 10:12 Senior Living Design Mick Schaefer, AIA, NCARB, LEED GA, recounts the challenges Vessel Architecture & Design had to overcome while designing a state-of-the-art senior living facility. The "unbuildable" hill.

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Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 19, 2021

Volumes have been written about the fragmentation of the AECOO (architecture, engineering, construction, operator, owner) and Facilities Management sectors and their relative high levels of economic and environmental waste. Aligning strategies and objectives with processes and workflows.

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Levelset

AUGUST 31, 2022

They offer a full range of business insurance policies, including general liability, commercial auto, workers’ compensation, and umbrella. They provide general liability, property, subcontractor, and cyber protection. Next does not offer specialty coverage, like builders’ risk or pollution liability. Find an agent. Nationwide.

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Constructlaw

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

the designer), the Kadney Company (the general contractor), Vergnet (the turbine supplier), and two different site engineers: Prudent Engineering, and Ravi Engineering and Land Surveying (the engineers). Two of the most notable risks are scope gaps, and as demonstrated in this case, liability gaps.

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Construction Lawyer

MAY 20, 2009

He is a partner in the law firm of Sabo & Zahn, concentrating in construction law and representing owners, contractors, architects, developers, engineers and other parties in the construction process. Sabo & Zahn LLC is an Illinois Limited Liability Company. Liability for green design. Copyright Notice. Disclaimer.

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Construction Dive

JULY 23, 2014

By Bruce Jervis It has long been controversial: Should design professionals be directly liable to construction contractors for deficiencies in the drawings and specifications? On one hand, contractors necessarily rely on the design documents when bidding and performing the work. There are arguments on each side. ” Read more.

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Construction Cost Estimating

MARCH 31, 2015

Lamprell is seeking a Senior Process Engineer UAE based Lamprell, the leading solution provider in the energy industry in the Middle East for more than 35 years, is seeking a Senior Process Engineer who has to make report to Group Engineering Manager. Estimation / engineering work corresponding to bids.

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Construction Specifier

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Inadequate snow guard systems—or the lack of them—can potentially create liability issues for building owners, designers, and contractors. Liability concerns. While engineered snow retention systems complement the roof, this market space is unregulated. Many applications are not specifically engineered for design loads.

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Levelset

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While general liability insurance covers against claims related to injury or property damage, errors and omissions insurance protects from lawsuits related to financial loss. Errors and omissions insurance, also called professional liability insurance, is one tool that contractors can use to transfer risk away from themselves.

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Construction Dive

JUNE 19, 2013

By Bruce Jervis The role of design professionals has evolved considerably in recent decades. In a recent Arkansas case, a licensed professional engineer was sanctioned for acting as a general contractor without possessing the necessary state contractor license. This is particularly true during the construction phase of the project.

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Construction Lawyer

JULY 17, 2014

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP , the California Supreme Court held that architects owe a duty of care to purchasers of condominium units and can be sued by those purchasers for design negligence. 2) It was foreseeable that these homeowners would be among the limited class of persons harmed by the negligently designed units. (3)

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Construction Law

DECEMBER 2, 2022

ICE’s report says accurate emissions reporting must become integral in the design of major infrastructure if private finance is to help fund green projects. Projects may also risk litigation for failing to mitigate the release of carbon in their design, construction and operation.

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Construction Business Owner

JANUARY 30, 2011

» Relationship between the designer and the contractor. One part of our industry that I simply cannot get my head around is the oftentimes adversarial relationship that exists between the building design professionals and the building contractors on a particular job. Public Exposure and Liability on Construction Sites.

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Construction Cost Estimating

APRIL 6, 2015

Testifying Tips That Civil Engineering Should Follow Litigation was the only way to fix the matter whenever a stiff dispute breaks out in a construction project. But the stake holders here always need the participation of civil engineers as fact witness or expert witness in any form of litigation or ADR.

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Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 31, 2021

The facilities management and AECOO sectors (architecture, engineering, construction, owner, and operator) have long suffered from poor productivity growth and high levels economic and environmental waste. All that is needed is owner leadership and commitment. The Problem.

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Construction Cost Estimating

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Value Engineering (VE) is taken as an industrial tool for cost cutback and upgrading of product performance by system approach. We provide specialized services in value engineering, value management, value analysis and value improvement alongwith Sustainable Design & Constructability Review.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 13, 2015

SmithGroup was the architect and responsibility for design. Parallams are a fabricated wood product made by gluing strands of second-growth trees together to form a larger and stronger engineered wood product. One of SmithGroup’s design elements for the project was the use of external Parallams.

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Construction Cost Estimating

AUGUST 30, 2014

Construction Safety Management and Engineering, the much cherished book edited by Darryl C.Hill, has produced its second edition. Some of them are John Gambatese [incentives; prevention through design (PTD)], Mike Behm (PTD), Nigel Ellis (fall protection), Mike Hayslip (excavation) and T. Michael Toole (PTD; regulations).

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A good project plan counters risk head-on and shares information between design and strategy, supply chain acquisitions, engineering, labour hire, training, construction management and more. This requires visibility across the entire lifecycle, from design to implementation. In fact, it makes for better engineering.

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Building Information Management

AUGUST 6, 2013

Providing the opportunity for the kind of collaboration that the construction industry so badly needs… Design-Build has a spectrum, ranging from almost as dysfunctional … all the way to almost as collaborative as Integrated Project Delivery. Shifting Design-Build toward IPD. Owners, this is bad for you.

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PSMJ Resources

APRIL 1, 2011

and liability insurance specialist Brian Hadar from Suncoast Insurance Associates. Hadar, meanwhile, will offer up expertise on the liability implications of a merger or acquisition. He was recently named AIA Florida’s Allied Member of the Year for his loss prevention work on behalf of design firms throughout Florida.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Five factors to consider before selecting project delivery methods for your projects include your budget, design, risks, schedule, and owner expertise. . Design: what the final project will look like and how it will function. Are you looking for innovative designs and complex over form and function?

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Construction Specifier

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

While a rooftop pool is a great amenity, it can come with great fiscal and physical liabilities. Yet, an insightful design professional could take advantage of remarkable vistas and envision an accessible amenity within an otherwise unoccupied space. Design and construction teams.

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Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Real property owners, architects, engineers, and builders all would profit greatly from just applying “Change Management 101” effectively as a priority. The latter includes all internal personnel and departments as well as all external services providers (architects, engineers, contractors, consultants, etc.).

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Construction Cost Estimating

MAY 17, 2018

It allows them to get a clear view of the significances of design decisions at initial phase as well as provide suggestions the employer/client accordingly. Senior Quantity Surveyor –They take ownership as well as liability for the team. He/she reports daily to the lead partner of the surveying firm.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We also recognize that not all companies have the engineering resources or time to build custom integrations. Project managers and project engineers have their work cut out for them. Implementing interoperable workflows allows architects, engineers, and contractors to work better together and overcome these challenges. .

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Construction Lawyer

APRIL 27, 2012

He is a partner in the law firm of Sabo & Zahn, concentrating in construction law and representing owners, contractors, architects, developers, engineers and other parties in the construction process. Sabo & Zahn LLC is an Illinois Limited Liability Company. Fiduciary Duty by Design Professionals? Copyright Notice. Disclaimer.

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Construction Lawyer

MAY 8, 2009

He is a partner in the law firm of Sabo & Zahn, concentrating in construction law and representing owners, contractors, architects, developers, engineers and other parties in the construction process. Sabo & Zahn LLC is an Illinois Limited Liability Company. Unlimited liability for designers and contractors. Disclaimer.

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Construction Lawyer

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

He is a partner in the law firm of Sabo & Zahn, concentrating in construction law and representing owners, contractors, architects, developers, engineers and other parties in the construction process. Sabo & Zahn LLC is an Illinois Limited Liability Company. Limitation of Liability in new AIA Document. Copyright Notice.

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