Job Order Contracting

MARCH 7, 2017

Define Construction Procurement. Define Construction Procurement… It’s easy to define construction procurement right? Improper construction procurement methods and a relative lack of competency on the part of procurement staff have greatly contributed to poor construction outcomes. Perhaps not.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 8, 2015

On July 23, 2015, the parties in the lawsuit The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc., District Court for Maryland, filed a Stipulation of Dismissal with Prejudice following a confidential Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release. Weyerhaeuser Company, et al, pending in the U.S.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 8, 2015

On July 23, 2015, the parties in the lawsuit The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc., District Court for Maryland, filed a Stipulation of Dismissal with Prejudice following a confidential Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release. Weyerhaeuser Company, et al , pending in the U.S.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 3, 2018

. – Authorizes job order contract to all K-12 school districts, that have entered into project labor agreements, for public works over $25,000. AB-618 Local Agency Public Construction Act: job order contracting: school districts: community college districts. SWC-90818 Indefinite Quantity Construction Services SPD-CP031b.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 13, 2015

With an Order Of Judgment, in favor of Permapost Products Company against Weyerhaeuser Company filed on November 17, 2015, resolving the final third party claims, the more than 15 year old disputes and differences over the construction of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Philip Merrill Environmental Center, in Annapolis, Maryland, are over.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 26, 2016

And while it is a standalone tool for measuring landscape sustainability, in June 2015, Green Business Certification Inc., SITES v2 is a voluntary set of guidelines and performance benchmarks to assess the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of sustainable landscapes. SITES is a sustainable landscape rating system.

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Construction Superintendent Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

These include a new owner/consultant agreement, as well as six new administrative forms for use on design-build projects. The C103–2015, Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and Consultant without a Predefined Scope of Consultant’s Services establishes expectations between an owner and consultant on a project.

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ENR Construction

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

C to 2° C target established in the 2015 Paris Agreement will be insufficient in achieving that goal, according to former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. There is growing consensus within the energy community that net-zero technologies to help keep global temperatures from rising above the 1.5°

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Construction Junkie

JULY 23, 2020

In 2018, Autodesk made a huge splash in the construction industry by acquiring PlanGrid , BuildingConnected , and Assemble. In 2019, the company combined all of those acquisitions and their native BIM 360 application in Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC). The terms of Autodesk’s acquisition of Pype have not been released.

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Construction Equipment

JANUARY 22, 2015

Volvo Penta has reached an agreement with Ohio-based Gradall to be the exclusive supplier of Tier 4 Final diesel engines for their XL line of excavators. The Gradall telescopic-boom hydraulic excavators, powered by Volvo Penta 5 and 8 liter engines, will be available starting Q2 2015.'

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Construction Equipment

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The Toro Company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the BOSS professional snow and ice management business of privately held Northern Star Industries Inc. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and currently is expected to close during Toro’s fiscal 2015 first quarter.'

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 26, 2016

And while it is a standalone tool for measuring landscape sustainability, in June 2015, Green Business Certification Inc., SITES v2 is a voluntary set of guidelines and performance benchmarks to assess the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of sustainable landscapes. SITES is a sustainable landscape rating system.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Responding to client email about impact of construction project change order on contemplated LEED certification, so that payment can be released today. Reviewing and editing proposed specifications for university mandated to be green building construction contract. 11:00 a.m. [Lunch with prospective client]. addendum public comment.

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NH Construction Law

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Over the past decade, Building Information Modeling (“BIM”) – computerized 3D portrayal of integrated building elements that allows a project or project subset to be built virtually before being built in the field – has become prolific in commercial construction. Walsh Construction Company II LLC , 132 F.Supp.3d

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Best Practices Construction Law

MARCH 29, 2016

Although design-build had been approved in New Mexico on limited public projects, road and highway construction had been previously excluded. Projects can now be accelerated through the alternative approach of design-build, where the team selected for the construction project has both design and construction responsibilities.

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ENR Construction

JUNE 17, 2016

Since the previous agreement expired in October 2015, countries now are under a one-year moratorium that bars new unfair trade actions.

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NH Construction Law

JULY 22, 2023

Commercial construction subcontracts frequently incorporate by reference provisions of the prime contract between the owner and the general contractor, often with language requiring the subcontractor to assume toward the general contractor all duties owed by the general contractor to the owner. In L & B Construction Co, v.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JANUARY 18, 2013

In addition, the LNG project would require an estimated 1,000 construction jobs. Magnolia LNG would produce 4 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas per year, and construction would begin in 2015, pending the company’s attainment of permits and final financing. venture by 2015.”.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

This blog has been a participant in the Best Construction Blog competition since the contest’s inception, and in fact won in 2011. Now, back to construction. If I have any quibbles, these relate to the lack of recent updates. Before then, the blog had frequent fresh and relevant posts. These other places?

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Safety Services Company

JULY 2, 2013

This article was written by Safety Consultants with Safety Services Company , we provide Construction, Manufacturing, and General Industry Safety Programs to over 100,000 clients across the United States and Canada. Legislation in Canada requires the adoption of the GHS by 2015 and training of employees to be complete by June 2016.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Peter Shumlin, Attorney General Bill Sorrell, and Bill Mohl, President of Entergy Wholesale Commodities, have announced a settlement agreement between the State and the owner and operator of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC and Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. Entergy VY). Shumlin said.

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Constructlaw

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Imagine a complicated engineering and construction project that has lasted years and has already cost hundreds of millions of dollars. As stakeholders in the construction community know all too well, this scenario is not an uncommon one. As published in Dispute Resolution Magazine, volume 26, issue 3, September 2020.

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Construction Lawyer

JANUARY 19, 2015

Inman Construction, No. W2014-00802-COA-R3CV, 2015 WL 129024 (Tenn. Jan 9, 2015). The contract made no mention of attorneys fees, but it did incorporate the Construction Industry Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association. The dispute escalated and the subcontractor filed a complaint in court.

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Best Practices Construction Law

DECEMBER 17, 2015

On September 9, 2015, United States Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. As corollaries to that directive, DOJ is instructing its attorneys to investigate and build cases against individuals from the start and to include a “company’s continued cooperation with respect to individuals” as a term of any plea or settlement agreement.

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Best Practices Construction Law

JUNE 1, 2015

2015), the Government entered an agreement with the Contractor to install three back-up generators. .” But when it comes to contract specifications requiring “new” equipment, one court looked to a dictionary to define it as “never used before” and “free of significant damage.” 3d 1329 (Fed.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MAY 21, 2013

Gas & Power and Consolidated Edison Development (ConEdison Development) have announced an agreement to partner in two of Sempra U.S. When the second phase is fully constructed, expected in 2015, the project’s total operating capacity will be 150 MW. The agreement is subject to approvals from the U.S.

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Construction Law Monitor

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The new legislative session has begun in Washington, and a number of bills affecting the construction industry have been introduced. Athletic Field construction lien case. House Bill 1559 (Limiting indemnification agreements involving design professionals). Introduced by Rep. Introduced by Sen. Introduced by Sen.

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Construction Test

MAY 13, 2020

If 2020 doesn’t pass the previous hottest year on record, 2016, the NOAA says it’s all but certain to rank in the top five, all of which have happened since 2015. Paris agreement on climate change. The Paris Agreement, which was first signed in 2015, is an international agreement to control and limit climate change. .

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Constructlaw

JULY 6, 2020

This article was originally published in Government Construction (Volume 5, Issue 2 – Summer 2020), an ABA Division 13 Quarterly Newsletter. In mid-March 2015, PSJV remobilized to the site. The Board further found that no constructive change occurred because the DOS never ordered PSJV to evacuate the work site.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 1, 2016

To encourage the company’s investment and job growth in the community, the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority (KEDFA) at its May 2015 meeting preliminarily approved Superior Composites for tax incentives up to $500,000 through the Kentucky Business Investment program.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 21, 2014

When construction is complete, Copper Mountain Solar 3 will be part of the existing Copper Mountain Solar complex. Gas & Power and Consolidated Edison Development (ConEdison Development) have announced agreements to partner in five solar projects in Nevada and California. Posted by Heidi Schwartz . Photo: Sempra U.S. Sempra U.S.

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NH Construction Law

MARCH 13, 2019

Steelwood Construction, Inc. , ” Depriving a terminated contractor of an opportunity to cure defects was likewise the basis for rejecting defective workmanship claims in TRG Construction, Inc. 3d 406 (2015), for example, held that liquidated damages could be recovered from a contractor who was terminated for convenience.

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Best Practices Construction Law

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Signed by President Barack Obama on September 7, 2015, Executive Order No. Of course some federal contractors may already be providing paid sick leave either as a result of company policies or collective bargaining agreements. … ) or when a close family member is sick. But right now, they are all happy.

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Business Facilities

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Established in 2015 as a spinoff of Lexington-based Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals Inc., The performance-based incentive allows a company to keep a portion of its investment over the agreement term through corporate income tax credits and wage assessments by meeting job and investment targets.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JUNE 12, 2013

The expansion at Alcoa’s facility represents a $275 million investment over the next three years and will add 200 permanent full-time jobs upon completion, as well as 400 jobs during the construction phase. “I The Blount County expansion is scheduled to be completed by mid-2015.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

One was today’s Construction Industry Forum, where Senior Vice President & General Manager at Autodesk Construction Solutions, Jim Lynch, took the stage. Missed the Construction Industry Forum? In this year alone, we’ve watched you start over half a million projects in Autodesk Construction products. Simplicity.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 29, 2017

County, State, and Local Governments, include secondary education unfortunately continue to use JOC simply as a means to speed delivery and bypass traditional procurement versus as a LEAN collaborative construction delivery method. Revised September 23, 2015). The ENR index is a weighted aggregate of changes to construction costs.

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