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Construction Arbitration

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Arbitration is the most widely used method of dispute resolution in the construction industry. Parties should understand the key concepts and common types of claims when deciding whether to arbitrate disputes involving construction contracts.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Jason Waddell, Director of Construction Technology at Batson-Cook

Autodesk Construction Cloud

That’s where Jason Waddell , Director of Construction Technology at Batson-Cook , comes in. We do commercial construction, pretty much anything vertical. Half of our business is in healthcare, our specialty, and the rest is commercial: schools, park decks, and any other type of vertical construction.

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Pennsylvania Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act: What Residential Contractors Need to Know

Levelset

There are a few provisions that every construction contract should have. The rationale is that homeowners aren’t as sophisticated and/or construction savvy as commercial owners. The contract should constitute the entire agreement between the parties, including attached copies of any required notices.

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Arbitration Update – The 2021 ICDR Arbitration Rules: A Welcome Update for International Construction Arbitration

Constructlaw

1 The 2021 update marks the first time the ICDR’s arbitration rules and mediation rules have been revised since 2014 and 2008, respectively, and is of particular note to the construction industry both in the United States and elsewhere.???????.

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constructionattorneyblog: Sole Proximate Cause Defense Reaffirmed

Construction Lawyer

Werner Sabo is a partner at the construction law firm of Sabo & Zahn in Chicago. He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular construction law column for The Construction Specifier.

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A More Even Field: The Eleventh Circuit Overrules Its Precedent and Joins Most Circuits on the Applicability of Domestic FAA Grounds to Vacate Nondomestic Arbitration Awards[1]

Constructlaw

and arising out of a commercial relationship between U.S. The Corporacion AIC, SA Case Corporacion arose out of a construction dispute between two Guatemalan companies, Hidroelectrica Santa Rita S.A. 3d at 1446 (“[T]he Convention’s enumeration of defenses is exclusive.”). [13] Hidroelectrica Santa Rita S.A. arbitration law.

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Non-signatory bound by agreement to arbitrate

Construction Lawyer

Werner Sabo is a partner at the construction law firm of Sabo & Zahn in Chicago. He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular construction law column for The Construction Specifier.