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No Free Warranty: Connecticut Court Adopts Correction or Repair Test

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ALS began performing invasive species removal and control work for a Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT) intersection improvement project in February 2018. ALS completed its removal work in August 2018. Travelers Casualty & Surety Company of America (Travelers) issued the payment bond for the project.

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#70:  Owner and GC Tort Duties to Subcontractor Employees

NH Construction Law

203 (2018), provides some guidance. A&M’s subcontract required it to assume full responsibility for implementing safety programs on the project, to maintain all work areas in a safe manner, and to furnish all safety equipment. Who is liable for injuries to the sub’s employees in such cases? The recent case of Grady v.

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#66:  Labor Inefficiency Costs: Who Pays? How Much?

NH Construction Law

Sometimes unanticipated compression is the result of acts of God or of third parties, in which case it is crucial to examine the contract or subcontract to see who has agreed to bear this risk. IPS-Integrated Project Services, LLC , 2018 WL 1525725 (D.N.H. See Town of Bedford v. Brooks , 121 N.H.

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Viewpoint Technology Awards – Call for Submissions

Viewpoint Construction Technology

With all of the projects the company works on, it was having a hard time tracking subcontract compliance data without running into manual processes and duplicate data entry. If you’ve got a great technology story to share, then you might have what it takes to win a 2018 Viewpoint Technology Award. To solve this, C.W

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Specifications for design-build projects

Construction Specifier

Often, DBB specifications can be adapted with reasonable effort and cost for use on construction manager as advisor (CMa) and construction manager-at-risk (CMAR) projects. Figure 1 : Contractual relationships of design-bid-build (DBB), design-negotiate-build (DNB), and construction manager-at-risk (CMAR) projects.

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Specifications for design-build projects

Construction Specifier

Often, DBB specifications can be adapted with reasonable effort and cost for use on construction manager as advisor (CMa) and construction manager-at-risk (CMAR) projects. Greater challenges arise when adapting DBB source documents for design-build.

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Construction Jobsite Safety: Strategies and Resources for Worker Well-Being

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Cannabis and the Jobsite: Keeping Your Risk to a Minimum. His research found a sharp increase in poison-related asphyxia among reported incidents between 2014 and 2018, while drug and alcohol use and an aging workforce also were cited as factors causing injuries and fatalities. Construction Worker Suicide: A Fragile Balance.

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