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BIM 2015 Reader Survey - Standard Form Documents, Execution Plans and COBie - What's Your Experience?

Construction Dive

Contractors are finding benefits in improved coordination and scheduling with less claims and change orders. Architects and engineers find BIM allows projects to be completed faster while making it easier to make design changes. BIM seems to highly regarded by those who have made the transition.

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“Good Faith” May Not Be Good Enough: California Supreme Court to Decide When General Contractors Can Withhold Retention

Construction and Infrastructure Law

Failure to make payments in accordance with Section 8814 can subject an owner or a contractor to a (1) two percent penalty per a month on the amount wrongfully withheld, and (2) claim for attorney’s fees for any litigation required to collect the wrongfully withheld retention payments. Code, § 8818.). In United Riggers , 243 Cal.App.4th

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Worldwide Need for Construction Collaboration

Building Information Management

The most recent report is the NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION AND CONTRACTS LAW SURVEY, 2015, NBS. Average project timeline. %/#/$ Change orders. are: shorter procurement times, fewer change orders, virtual elimination of legal disputes, and more projects completed on-time and on-budget. or rules, it is a skill set.”.

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#117:  Building Information Modeling

NH Construction Law

Adjustments made in the field to accommodate those differences can spawn what look very much like Type I differing site condition claims. 2015), is worth a read. Sometimes actual field conditions differ from what was expected based on the BIM, and a clash not modeled is nevertheless encountered during installation. 3d 1064 (E.D.Wis.

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Construction Contract Advisor: A worthy contender, again

Construction Marketing Ideas

Craig Martin’s Construction Contract Advisor blog won the 2014 Best Construction Blog competition , and its quality continues to make it a contender in 2015. It is easy to grossly underestimate or forget about the time and cost “impacts” on original contract work caused by design defects and changes made by the owner to correct them.

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Why Projects Fail

Job Order Contracting

Research has readily demonstrated the correlation between the maturity level of an organization and project failure, i.e. excessive time spent upon change orders/rework, budget overruns, and overall client and/or participant dissatisfaction with outcomes. The root causes of construction project failure, Shahhosseini et al, 2015.

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40 Under 40: Champions of Construction 2021

Autodesk Construction Cloud

In 2015, he realized the importance of technology in construction and developed PPE’s IT initiative. He oversees change order management, contract claims defense, quality assurance audits, and safety and environmental compliance, among other things.