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#96:  Payment Bond Sureties and "Pay-if-Paid" Subcontracts

NH Construction Law

It is often said that a payment bond surety may assert all of the contractual defenses to payment enjoyed by its principal. 2d 404 (1990), construing Florida law, held that general contractor’s “pay-if-paid” defense was not available to a surety. Foundation Constructors, Inc. , Pace Construction Corp. ,

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For Sarah Hernandez, The Korte Company made her American dream come true

The Korte Company

Now she’s the project manager on the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s new Reality-Based Training Center , a 105,000-square-foot campus where first responders can practice simulations for personal and citizen defense, along with active shooter incidents. . There’s pressure, sure, but she finds it thrilling. It’s a whirlwind.

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Construction Cost Estimating, Location Factoring, and National Average Cost Data

Job Order Contracting

The RSMeans city cost index (CCI) and the Department of Defense area cost factor (ACF) index are two primary examples of location factor publications. For example, Estes (2016) found that for a slab-on-grade foundation assembly with 0.1 Martinez, A., Built Environ. doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2023.1111563

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

Business Facilities

4 in Best Business Climate, Texas—all have been perennial contenders for BF’s top honor, the State of the Year Award: Texas and Tennessee each have won the award three times since it was created in 2007; Virginia was the 2018 SOTY; Alabama won BF’s top award in 2017. “An

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4BT OpenCost(TM) Local Market Granular Cost Data an RSmeans Alternative?

Job Order Contracting

The RSMeans city cost index (CCI) and the Department of Defense area cost factor (ACF) index are two primary examples of location factor publications. For example, Estes (2016) found that for a slab-on-grade foundation assembly with 0.1 Martinez, A., Built Environ. doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2023.1111563 Four BT, LLC – www.4bt.us

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Apply to be a Member of the ASHRAE Committee for Standard 189.1

Green Building Law Update

The deadline to make application for Project Committee membership is March 15, 2017. Department of Defense, the largest owner of buildings in North America, that is also the owner or more green building and more LEED certified building than anyone else, uses a variant of ASHRAE 189.1-2009. ASHRAE Standard 90.1 Significantly, the U.S.

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Jay Korte: Bridging the gap

The Korte Company

Today, Jay continues to build upon the foundation his father laid many years ago, helping shape the communities he grew up in. We were back in 2017, to build another facility for Knapheide. Our history with Spartan includes two large construction projects: We built Spartan’s 92,000-square-foot expansion in Sparta in 2017.