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LEAN OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting for Sustainable Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Minor New Construction

Job Order Contracting

Master Contracts/Master Agreements – Optional-use contracts whose purpose is to facilitate obtaining supplies and services from multiple contractors by placing competitive work orders. General Services Administration (GSA), Department of Defense (DOD), and National 19 Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). REFERENCES.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

success through an incentive agreement: lessons learned from an underground railway. Organizations that provide leadership and commitment to collaborative environments are rare. M., & Kumaraswamy, M. Conceptual model of partnering and alliancing. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 133(3), 225-234. Army Corps of Engineers.

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A More Even Field: The Eleventh Circuit Overrules Its Precedent and Joins Most Circuits on the Applicability of Domestic FAA Grounds to Vacate Nondomestic Arbitration Awards[1]

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17] The court explained that its prior precedent erroneously “equated the defenses to recognition and enforcement with the grounds for vacatur” [18] and that this was “plainly and palpably wrong.” [19] 2010); Karaha Bodas Co. 3d at 1446 (“[T]he Convention’s enumeration of defenses is exclusive.”). [13] 4th 876, 880 (11th Cir.

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#125:  Pay-if-Paid Clauses and Contractor Default

NH Construction Law

Can its decision to give up money in a settlement agreement rather than litigate the owner’s claimed justification for nonpayment effectively bargain away the subcontractors’ right to payment under a pay-if-paid provision? 2010), didn’t think so. Quinn Construction, Inc. Skanska USA Building, Inc. , 730 F.Supp.2d

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Federal Court dismisses sub's claim against GC because of arbitration

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The cases with which he has been involved are varied and wide-ranging and include personal injury, breach of contract, criminal defense, commercial disputes, and consumer fraud. You are not our client and we are not your attorneys unless and until you enter into a written retainer agreement with us. LEXIS 46151 (W.Dist.

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Fraudulent Concealment Subject to Statutory Limitations Period

Construction Lawyer

735 ILCS 5/13-214 (West 2010). of the standard AIA Owner/Architect agreement applies to fraud-based construction claims. Under the newer version of the AIA documents, the architect here would not have had this defense and the case would likely have gone to trial. contracts litigation'

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Construction Contract's arbitration provision is separable, based on

Construction Lawyer

The cases with which he has been involved are varied and wide-ranging and include personal injury, breach of contract, criminal defense, commercial disputes, and consumer fraud. You are not our client and we are not your attorneys unless and until you enter into a written retainer agreement with us. 2772,  2778 (2010).