Construction Marketing Ideas

MARCH 12, 2016

Construction Law, Policy & News blog provides worthy insights — even if you don’t live anywhere near North Carolina. Construction Law, Policy and News blog continues its multi-year reputation of providing solid and relevant information for the AEC industry within North Carolina. Matt Bouchard’s N.C.

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Best Practices Construction Law

JULY 1, 2022

In other words, there is more than meets the eye, a problem that many employers and employees face when a dispute arises. In what would appear to be a clear and express indication by the parties to arbitrate their dispute, the writing may not be enforceable if not part of an enforceable contract. In Mankin Media Systems, Inv.

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Best Practices Construction Law

MAY 1, 2012

You will rarely find me advertising on this blog. You can learn best practices for documentation and record management in this 90-minute webinar — From Paper to Paperless: Controlling Construction Documentation, Improving Record Management and Identifying Risk in an Electronic Age. What is the hearsay rule?

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Construction Marketing Ideas

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Chris Hill’s Construction Law Musings continues to provide extensive insights and ideas, focusing on dispute resolution and litigation challenges, but covering many other aspects of the architectural, engineering and construction community. Over the past four weeks, I’ve “mused” on the “stages” of a construction dispute.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 27, 2014

the general contractor responsible for construction of the Mitchell Park library, a proposed LEED Platinum project. With a performance bond in place, the City and the surety announced in early March that they has negotiated a takeover agreement that will allow a new contractor to complete construction.

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Constructlaw

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

With more than half of 2022 in the books, Troutman Pepper’s award-winning Construction Practice Group recaps some of the more major developments from the last year and looks ahead to what the remainder holds. based entities to asymmetrical discovery obligations in connection with international disputes. On November 5, 2021, the U.S.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JUNE 9, 2022

You open your construction management software to view progress photos, but you’re quickly overwhelmed by the number of images in the gallery. It’s estimated that construction professionals spend 35% of their time on non-optimal activities like searching for information. Dealing with claims and disputes . Releasing payments .

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 2, 2016

In a recent review of contracts involving green building construction projects, less than 20% had properly drafted provisions addressing green building matters. 100 contracts involving green building construction projects were reviewed. If you are going to be in LA, add it to your calendar and please join us!

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 18, 2016

This blog post is not as epic as A Day in the Life , the last song on the Sgt. Responding to client email about impact of construction project change order on contemplated LEED certification, so that payment can be released today. Client names and other specific references are omitted to protect the not so innocent.). 05:20 p.m.

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Construction Law

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Guest editor Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, and the Construction Industry Guest Editors Vanessa Alarcon Duvanel, Alex Levin Canal and Alexandra Gerdes of King & Spalding LLP suggest that contractual incentives to get to net zero are a parallel and possibly faster, more flexible and less burdensome option to promote sustainable behaviour.

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Best Practices Construction Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

I just blogged about asking for what you want and the importance of complying with notice provisions in pursuing a construction claim. Crossland Construction Co. , The contractor failed to attain substantial completion of the construction of a new grocery store by the contractually required deadline. CIV-18-175-HE (Nov.

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Construction Law Monitor

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Mediation and Construction Law are two of my favorite topics to discuss. Every construction law dispute I encounter starts with the premise of getting contractors paid. No matter the dispute, the underlying factor is withholding of money along the hierarchical chain of characters. Some disputes will never settle.

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NH Construction Law

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Many construction contracts and subcontracts, both residential and commercial, provide that any addition or deletion from the scope of work described in the contract must be documented by a written change order. Remi Fortin Construction, Inc. , See Blog #119 ) R. But there are other approaches that can save the day. 1 Philip L.

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 19, 2014

” There is now one Agreement applicable across all rating systems, including new construction, the Volume Program, Campus Projects and soon to be v4 Homes. ” These changes in dispute resolution serve to level the playing field in favor of project owners. Green Building Council.”

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Construction and Infrastructure Law

MARCH 7, 2018

It is industry standard in California for owners of a construction project to make monthly payments to a contractor for work it has completed, less a certain percentage that is withheld as a guarantee of future satisfactory performance. This withholding is called a retention. Code, § 8814, subd. (c) c) (Section 8814(c)).) Emphasis added.)

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Best Practices Construction Law

MAY 29, 2013

I''ve blogged about arbitration in construction disputes on numerous occasions. Just like any other construction contract dispute, the resolution in arbitration often comes down to the language used in the parties'' agreement. The Disputes. The Original Agreement. The Second Agreement.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 17, 2018

There is little real dispute that given humans take shelter from the climate inside buildings, humans need to design and construct those buildings to be resilient in whatever climatic zones the building is located. Green building is a low risk geoengineering solution to many of the environmental issues of the day.

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Construction Law

JULY 1, 2019

Adjudication, the lower cost and speedier alternative to taking disputes to court, has ended up being sometimes just as expensive and complex as full-blown, all sides fully lawyered-up, battles in court. It was bound to happen. To an extent they will be venturing into the unknown on a fixed price promise.

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PSMJ Resources

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Help avoid disputes by developing a scope checklist and reviewing it with the client. Mel Lesters E-Quip Blog. Sullivan Kreiss Building Design Executive Search Blog. Construction Marketing Ideas. Ford Harding blog. The Marketing and Business Blog. Building Design & Construction. Blog Archive.

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Construction Cost Estimating

JUNE 5, 2012

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. ProContractorMX Estimating Construction Project Management Software utilizes the On Premise / Client Server Operating Environment. ProContractorMX Estimating Construction Project Management Software utilizes the On Premise / Client Server Operating Environment. adsense analytic.

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NH Construction Law

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Miller Act, the federal statute providing for payment bonds on federal construction projects to protect unpaid subcontractors and suppliers, provides that suits on the payment bond “must be brought. United States f/b/o Maverick Construction Management Services, Inc. Consigli Construction Co., ” 40 U.S.C. §

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Construction Law

JULY 6, 2020

But even assuming that a government for once intends to keep its investment promises the construction sector might not be in any shape to fully deliver it, as long standing industry problems are being brought into ever sharper focus by the Covid-19 impact.

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Construction Law

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The decision in Dickie & Moore Limited v Trustees of the Lauren McLeish Discretionary Trust held that a successful challenge to part of an adjudication decision does not necessarily prevent enforcement of other parts of the decision, even if only a single dispute was referred to adjudication.

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Construction Cost Estimating

JUNE 21, 2011

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. Types of risks in construction. Risk in construction is fully integrated with every facets of construction life cycle. With construction risks construction projects may experience with ill defined scope, design and constructability issues and mismanaged vendors.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 4, 2014

Weyerhaeuser Company arose from the construction in 1999 of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s headquarters in Annapolis, Maryland. SmithGroup designed the building and Clark Construction oversaw its construction. Water damage to the Parallams was observed during construction. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation v.

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Lets Build

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

All construction projects rely on a long chain of stakeholders that have to work together and communicate in a seamless way so that the scheduled tasks are completed on time and on budget. Of course, everyone in the industry knows that it is almost impossible to go through a construction project without experiencing any kind of delays.

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Construction Law Monitor

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I wrote about this issue in the past here: Why Compromise Is Sometimes Better Than A Construction Dispute. Our friend Alan Haley recently published two blog posts related to this topic on this Louisiana Construction Law Blog. Mediation As Dispute Resolution Mechanism in Construction Industry.

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Construction Law Monitor

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Here on ConstuctionLawMonitor.com I like to blog about non-traditional ways to settle disputes between contractors and other feuding parties. Its also my favorite because, generally, its the best and most efficient way to resolve disputes. This type of clause is called a mediation or alternative dispute clause.

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NH Construction Law

JANUARY 18, 2023

A few years back I blogged ( #19 ) that RSA 447:8 might be an exception to this general rule, imposing a trust in favor of subcontractors on money that an owner owes to a general contractor if the proper notices are given by the subcontractors. In New Hampshire, an owner generally owes no duty to subcontractors to see that they get paid.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Christopher Hill’s Construction Law Musings provides worthy insights both for potential clients in Virginia, and elsewhere. Christopher Hill’s Construction Law Musings continues to be one of the longest-running and most successful construction-industry related blogs. my construction clients.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

This blog has been a participant in the Best Construction Blog competition since the contest’s inception, and in fact won in 2011. This blog has been a participant in the Best Construction Blog competition since the contest’s inception, and in fact won in 2011. Now, back to construction.

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Fieldwire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Effective construction project management requires you to balance multiple moving parts. Embracing technology in the construction project life cycle In order to use today’s technology to improve your project management strategies, you must understand how it can assist you through each stage of the construction life cycle.

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Construction Cost Estimating

JULY 26, 2011

Construction Cost Estimating Blog. Construction Contract - General Overview. A construction contract is a contract purposely carried off for the construction of an asset or a group of interdependent or interrelated assets relating to the design, technology and function or ultimate purpose or use. adsense analytic.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

MARCH 11, 2016

The Advise & Consult blog pulls together content from 23 experts in 15 states on a diversity of construction law issues. The Advise & Consult blog certainly isn’t light reading — but you wouldn’t want it to be dumbed down simple. Simply put: for nearly every project, SDI is a better product.

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Construction Marketing

APRIL 25, 2016

Since the economy’s slow improvement, the construction industry has seen growth as well. Raken, a construction reporting app, shares success factors for construction firms in a recent whitepaper. Raken, a construction reporting app, shares success factors for construction firms in a recent whitepaper.

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Construction Law Monitor

MARCH 22, 2012

A topic that is tangential to the construction industry is property law. Typically after a construction project is complete, especially in the commercial realm, there will be a lease of some type. Many times owners will complete the construction project and then get involve in complex leases with tenants.

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Construction Law Monitor

MARCH 9, 2012

All to often in my job I am faced with clients who end up in a dispute on a construction project. The contract is the cornerstone of any construction project and eventual dispute. It contains the scope of work and all provisions which govern when disputes arise. A good construction contract will include: 1.The

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