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#125:  Pay-if-Paid Clauses and Contractor Default

NH Construction Law

Can its decision to give up money in a settlement agreement rather than litigate the owner’s claimed justification for nonpayment effectively bargain away the subcontractors’ right to payment under a pay-if-paid provision? Quinn Construction, Inc. Skanska USA Building, Inc. , 730 F.Supp.2d 2d 401, 421 (E.D.

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Who Assumes the Risk of Material Cost Increases? As Always, It Depends!

Best Practices Construction Law

The contractor could have bargained for protection from price increases by including a price escalation clause in its proposal…but it did not. The solicitation also provided historical fuel prices and usage rates for contractors to use in crafting their bids. The Back-and-Forth.

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Project Labor Agreements (PLAs): What Contractors Need to Know

Levelset

This could affect $262 billion in federal government construction contracting as well as nearly 200,000 workers on federal construction contracts. But what is a PLA, and how can it affect construction jobs and wages ? PLAs are only allowed in construction projects, both new construction and alterations.

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constructionattorneyblog: California: No contractual jury waiver

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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Industry Focus: Aerospace Sector Is Flying High Again

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

A fter several years of job losses, aerospace and defense sector employment is expected to grow in 2016 by more than 39,000 jobs in the U.S., Aerospace & Defense Labor Market Study. percent, of which about 185,000 jobs were lost in the defense subsector. Aerospace and defense sector companies paid $7.7

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

Pro Builder

1 home builder in building permits and construction value, scaring off every large-volume, multistate production operation that dared enter Ivory’s Wasatch Mountain lair. After all, during his absence, Ivory Homes had strengthened its place as Utah’s No. Maybe now was the right time to step back, to perhaps even cash out.

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Deal of the Decade

Business Facilities

Industry analysts view the RFP as a last-ditch effort to break the deadlock and bring the union back to the bargaining table. Last month, the Machinists rejected 777X-related concessions Boeing maintains are essential to keeping production in Washington, including deep cuts to pension and health benefits. Far West U.S. Plains U.S.

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