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3 keys to align your team around project milestones

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The heartbeat of your project is your schedule. By arranging smaller tasks into a detailed daily schedule, you get to precisely map out your next steps, have better project control and anticipate delays before they could cause any huge issue. Remember a decade ago when you started to digitally file all your documents?

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3 steps for building a strong culture around planning

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As a project manager, you should always think of the schedule as the heartbeat of your project. If you make your schedule estimation in months, however, the delays you will have to face will also be in months. Make your plan easily available to everyone. It’s like running a race. But here comes the real challenge.

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How To Track Increased Construction Costs For Proving Claims

Best Practices Construction Law

In addition to daily reports, the following records should be prepared and maintained in the normal course of business to help prove claims and effectively manage the project: Correspondence file containing all correspondence relating to a specific claim, including letters and/or memoranda to and from the DOT and subcontractors.

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Best Practice: How to Track Increased Construction Costs for Proving Claims

Best Practices Construction Law

In addition to daily reports, the following records should be prepared and maintained in the normal course of business to help prove claims and effectively manage the project: Correspondence file containing all correspondence relating to a specific claim, including letters and/or memoranda to and from the DOT and subcontractors.

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'Twas the Night Before Christmas.and Comments Were Due on DBE Rule Changes

Best Practices Construction Law

In support of the proposed rules, DOT explains that it “has noticed an unfortunate trend” in which contract awardees have a period after bid opening to provide DBE information. DOT justifies the new rule on GFEs because bidders “have to amass a great deal of information to compete for a contract (e.g.,

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Construction Contract Tip: Pay Attention to “Coordination and Cooperation ” Clauses

Best Practices Construction Law

An owner, including a DOT, is said to have violated the implied obligations where its action or inaction delays performance of the project, thus increasing costs. The subsequent delay affected construction sequencing and scheduling. They look both at the contract language and at implied duties. Re Commercial Contractors Equipment, Inc.

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What Is a Construction Punch List (And How to Improve)

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When they do, it’s not enough to simply watch it fade away through the rearview mirror; you have to make sure all the i’s have been dotted and the t’s have been crossed—and that means a construction punch list. is a document showing work that still needs to be done on a construction project. What Is a Construction Punch List?