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This Company Wants to Rent Out Tiny Homes in Your Backyard

Pro Builder

According to Fast Company, backyard cottages are relatively common in California, but rent out at market rate. The long term agreement will allow the backyard home to remain even if the homeowner moves out. Backyard cottages are already relatively common in California.

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How to Protect Your Business When Employees Get Poached

Pro Builder

Here’s an example: A California sales executive who jumped ship for a competing employer took along a folder of customer lists and marketing plans. Called “ covenants not to compete ,” or “non-competes,” these agreements specify a period of time for the prohibition and a geographic area where the prohibition applies.

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New California Business? Knowledge is the key…

Construction Law Monitor

Partners share liability according to their partnership agreement, which is the framework for how the partnership operates. In the absence of an operating agreement the business code ( Title 2 of the California Business Code ) has default rules on how this type of entity operates. See Title 1 for Inc and Title 2.5

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Opportunities Shine in Community Solar

Green Building Law Update

Today there are only a handful of community projects actually producing power in Arizona, Colorado, California and Maryland. A recent federal government inventory found less than 81 megawatts of community solar projects in total (versus over 4,400 megawatts of installed residential rooftop solar in the U.S.).

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Behind the Build: Interview with Trever White, Group Manager at Toyota Motor North America

Autodesk Construction Cloud

It's now the Tesla plant up in Fremont, California. That included the service desk operations responsible for developing an ITIL support model; then, I moved to application development. This cross-functional organization leads specific functions like Paint, Weld, New Model, etc. Shop Originated Accelerated Results.

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Transforming shopping malls into 21st century neighborhoods

BD+C

With the State of California encouraging housing development in commercial zones, these projects are prime opportunities for alleviating the housing crisis. Rarely are mall properties owned by a singular entity and they come with handfuls of long-term lease agreements with retailers.

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Moving from Design-Build, DB, to Integrated Project Delivery, IPD

Building Information Management

The biggest problem with this model is that when you have an architect prepare bridging documents, you’ve just made all the big decisions without the input of the building team. Through downstream agreements, the major team players can also agree to waive certain liabilities against each other. Owners, this is bad for you.

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