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Better Manage Construction Costs Schedules and Quality

Job Order Contracting

The errors and poor processes result in change orders, project delays, and legal disputes. All off the require tools and support services to create integrated environments, to address all of the above issues, and more, are readily available. 10% are due to equipment and/or materials delays, most off which could have been foreseen.

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FTC Settles Charges Over Deceptive Zero VOC Claims

Green Building Law Update

Some of these chemicals can be harmful to the environment and people, especially to sensitive groups such as babies and those suffering from asthma or allergies. The Commission vote to accept the consent agreements was 2-0. The FTC published a description of the consent agreement packages in the Federal Register.

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Guide to Construction Services Procurement and Management

Job Order Contracting

The net result has been the continues legacy of economic and environmental waste, legal disputes, and dissatisfaction of both building uses and oversight groups. The faster the process is complete the better.

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Generating greater insights for the UK water market with @One Alliance

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The water sector is undergoing a transformation as they seek to deliver better outcomes for their customers and the environment alike. In the UK, the water industry announced its commitment to a carbon zero future by 2030, which is decades before the government’s legally binding target of 2050.

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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

Nevertheless, practitioners and parties who chose to seat their arbitrations within the Eleventh Circuit, will now have to grapple with a new legal environment and think strategically about how questions concerning vacatur will affect arbitration awards issued in the circuit. [1]

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How COP27 Impacts Real Estate: Pricing Real Estate Climate Risk

Stok

Regarding real estate specifically, the latest Global Status Report released by UNEP this week found that built environment energy consumption has increased beyond pre-pandemic peak levels by 2%, calling for an urgent increase in energy efficiency in both new construction and existing buildings.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Organizations that provide leadership and commitment to collaborative environments are rare. Common data environment (glossary of terms and definitions, locally researched detailed unit price cost data). Journal of Legal. Partnering in a unit price environment. management of knowledge in project environments.