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Job Order Contracting – The Legal Side

Building Information Management

This is an example of Job Order Contracting from a legal perspective and that of a school district in Texas. This is NOT intended as ANY form of legal advice or counsel, but simply to share information relative to efficient construction project delivery methods. The District enters into an interlocal agreement that provides otherwise.

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Better Manage Construction Costs Schedules and Quality

Job Order Contracting

Fortunately there are proven processes to better manage construction costs, schedules, and quality. The fundamental reason for poor outcomes is the failure to implement and properly manage robust and integrated LEAN planning, procurement, and project delivery processes. Better Manage Construction Costs.

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Legal Documents Required for Purchase of Property

CivilJungle

Legal Documents Required for Purchase of Property. But we must avoid the problem and legal situation by checking the documents required for buying property. Every construction work begins with legal approval. Sale Agreement. Only after the sale agreement can we tell the sale of custody becomes finished.

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Guide to Construction Services Procurement and Management

Job Order Contracting

A Guide to Construction Services Procurement would be incomplete without a discussion of collaborative LEAN construction planning and management methodology. The primary mistake that organizations make in procuring construction services in support of their facilities management needs is that they do not manage their providers.

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#105:  Nonmutual Arbitration Agreements

NH Construction Law

2000) (“We adhere to our view that one-sided agreements to arbitrate are not favored.”). A legal doctrine called “mutuality of obligation” – or in lay terms, if both sides are not bound, neither side is – comes into play here. Maverick Construction Management Services, Inc. 3d 71, 81 (1st Cir.

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Construction Risk Management: What to do when your project goes wrong

Lets Build

There is a number of parameters that you should think about and an efficient management of the risk is surely necessary. Check out this #awesome construction risk management guide Click To Tweet. All these different hazards can be divided to the following categories: Project Management Risks. Legal Risks.

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Contract Void Ab Initio: Key Insights into the KBR vs. Corps of Engineers Affirmative Defense

Best Practices Construction Law

Motion to Amend and Legal Defense: The Corps, despite delays in formally amending its answer, argued that KBR was aware of the potential affirmative defense before the conclusion of fact discovery. Falsely claiming to have submitted a Technical Assistance Agreement to the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.

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