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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. It is defined within and Lean environment government by a long-term multi-party agreement and associated written Operations Manual / Execution Guide. 10% are due to equipment and/or materials delays, most off which could have been foreseen.

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LEED Prerequisite Now Prohibits Smoking Cannabis

Green Building Law Update

At a time when a review of the LEED project database reveals that LEED project registrations, in all rating systems, continues to decline and decline dramatically, alienating those would be cannabis users in those top LEED jurisdictions seems unsound as a business model if there is any hope of righting LEED registration.

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How to Protect Your Business When Employees Get Poached

Pro Builder

Those items proved valuable resources for conducting his new duties—so valuable that his previous employer sued for violation of confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements and for illegal use of trade secrets. Confidentiality agreements. What Is a Restrictive Covenant? Three Most Common Types . Covenants not to compete .

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Selling Your Home Building Company? Here's What to Expect

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Each community and asset in your portfolio requires diligence, legal paperwork, and closing documents. You also need to prepare key information about the assets that will be presented to bidders, who will then use that data to evaluate your business and populate their own cash flow and valuation models. Who is buying your company?

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Journal of Legal. Conceptual model of partnering and alliancing. success through an incentive agreement: lessons learned from an underground railway. Development of a practical model of partnering for construction. Application of ANP in process models: An example of strategic. Anderson, L., & Polkinghorn, B.

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A Day in the Life of a Green Building Attorney

Green Building Law Update

Responding to consultant with comments on selection of a DOE approved energy model for 179D tax deduction. Drafting settlement agreement and release reflecting amicable resolution of disputes and differences arising out of construction of green building. Drafting form contract for LEED consultant to use in responding to RFPs.

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LEAN JOC Construction Improves Facilities Management Outcomes

Job Order Contracting

The Delivery Team has the legal duties of the constituent parties as outlined in their respective contracts. In the event the Core Team fails to reach a consensus, the objecting party may rely on the terms of its separate agreement(s). The Core Team should endeavor to make decisions for the Project by consensus.