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Digital Builder Podcast Ep 22: How Specialty Contractors Can Navigate Contracts & Get Paid On Time

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Best practices for handling change orders. For this reason, construction professionals must find better ways to craft and negotiate agreements. She recalls her experience speaking with a fellow attorney who had to go through a 129-page subcontract that could have been cut down to ten pages. Make sense of your contracts.

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Job Order Contract Execution Guide – Sample Template

Job Order Contracting

A Job Order Contract Execution Guide is a required element for any successful, best management practice JOC Program. The following template is provide for sample purposes only and should not be used a legally bidding document without through review and modification by appropriate Owner legal counsel. to 5:00 P.M.

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#100:  Dealing With Rising Costs

NH Construction Law

Another approach is to negotiate with subcontractors or suppliers to lock in prices for an extended period of time, thereby kicking the price increase risk downstream – but in the present volatile market, subs and suppliers are increasingly reluctant to hold their prices for long, typically not more than 60 or 90 days.

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The Best Way for Trade Contractors to Stay Out of the Courtroom

Pro Builder

Plans and drawings can save you some time (and words) by stating that "All work to be done is on the attached plans and/or drawings," when you bid on your project. The more specific you are, the better. Just make sure you attach that file before you submit it. . Then make sure you follow this procedure when the need for extra work arises.

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Litigation Topics for Prime / Subcontractor Contracts

Construction Law Monitor

Here both parties need to negotiate terms to better protect when a dispute arises. Commonly litigated subcontract provisions. Change Order and Extra Work Provisions. Very popular area for dispute in construction contracts – changes are always happening. Prime/Subcontractors Contracts. Notice Provisions.

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Using RSMeans Cost Data for Job Order Contracting – JOC – October 2013

Building Information Management

Owners have reams of rules and regulations to follow in order to put a project out for bid fairly. Job Order Contracting offers an alternative to traditional bidding processes. This database would be referenced for estimating, negotiating, project control and closeout. The primary concern in JOC contracts is time.

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Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders.

Job Order Contracting

Design-Bid-Build. Traditional design-bid-build (DBB) delivery process with design, bidding, and construction in separate, sequential steps. Construction contract is generally awarded to the lowest bidder and/or lowest qualified builder, who then utilizes the subcontractors included in his or her bid. Advantages.

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