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The Value Of Service Agreements In Your Construction Company

Contractor Bookkeeping

Service agreement holders are more likely to be clients who add more value to your construction company because they represent your customer base's most loyal segment. Every service agreement customer represents future work. Non-service agreement customers are more likely to be customers and fickle.

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BIM Group Sets Standards for Building Information Models

Construction Business Owner

August 23, 2013) - A nationwide group of Building Information Modeling users, known as the BIMForum, released the first-of-its kind standard establishing definitions for how complete Building Information Models (BIMs) need to be for different stages of the design and construction process. ARLINGTON, VA.

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How Creative Conflict Can Propel Business Negotiations

Construction Business Owner

But several megatrends continue to progress, including globalization, technological disruption, instant information exchange and customized solutions versus commoditized inputs. Long-term agreements, exclusivity, strategic relationships, joint ventures and partnerships have grown in place of old-style competitive price bidding.

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A Real Property Owner’s Guide to Improving Construction Productivity

Job Order Contracting

A critical aspect involves balancing standardization of activities and information with empowering those doing the work on site. This involves creating a guideline that takes an organization through a required change management process and established a foundation of valid, actionable information. Proven Solutions.

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#117:  Building Information Modeling

NH Construction Law

Over the past decade, Building Information Modeling (“BIM”) – computerized 3D portrayal of integrated building elements that allows a project or project subset to be built virtually before being built in the field – has become prolific in commercial construction. This is not your father’s CAD system.

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More Than Meets the Eye: TN Court Finds Arbitration Agreement in Employee Handbook Non-Binding

Best Practices Construction Law

30, 2022), the Court of Appeals of Tennessee reversed the confirmation of an arbitration award because the so-called arbitration clause appeared in the employee handbook and was not a stand-alone agreement. When the employee left, he allegedly downloaded from his computer and took certain confidential information. Timothy Crowder , No.

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Not So Severable After All: Third Circuit Lets Courts Determine Arbitration Agreement Existence When Underlying Contract’s Validity Is Challenged

Constructlaw

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit addressed the perennially thorny issue of whether the courts or arbitrators retain the authority to resolve questions involving the enforceability of arbitration agreements. After the project began, a labor union representative approached and asked MZM’s president to execute a “short-form agreement.”