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Best Practices for Developing a Contractor’s Request for Compensation

Best Practices Construction Law

Recently, Cordell sent me a list of items that all contractors should review when developing a request for additional compensation. Identify any trends and determine whether there is a causal event for any loss of productivity that may be compensable. Prove legal entitlement.

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Better Manage Construction Costs Schedules and Quality

Job Order Contracting

Over eighty percent (80%) of construction projects are over-budget, late, or not competed correctly. The errors and poor processes result in change orders, project delays, and legal disputes. Sixty (60%) percent of all project fail to meet both cost and and schedule targets. are all defined.

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Why the BIM Revolution Fizzled

Job Order Contracting

Changing work flows and business relationships, restructuring how organizations interact and are compensated is a requirement. LEAN AECOO / Facilities Management will eventually become the norm, if not a legal requirement. LEAN AECOO impacts on every element of thinking, work, and business models. The buck stops with owners.

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Estimating- The New Normal

Chianelli Estimating

Most likely none of the cost factors now required will have been budgeted for on previously awarded contracts and the list is formable; controlled access to sites, material delivery disruptions, temperature checks, two week quarantine, reduced labor force – both in the field and in the office, material shortages. Legal expense.

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The Case For Paying Marketers More

Help Everybody Everyday

Today, I’m going to make the case for why many marketers are not being properly compensated under Federal law. And I’m going to provide all the information you or they would need to decide for themselves whether or not anyone’s compensation needs to be adjusted. Last year, I sat through a legal presentation at a firm called Reed Smith.

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Provide Notice (and 10 Other Tasks) When Pursuing a Construction Claim

Best Practices Construction Law

Identify any trends and determine whether there is a causal event for any loss of productivity that may be compensable. Review each major cost code in job cost reports and try to determine every possible reason for differences between budgeted and actual costs. Prove legal entitlement.

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Final Countdown to Principal: Advice for Up and Comers

PSMJ Resources

related to becoming a Principal such as the Shareholder Agreement, Deferred Compensation Agreement, Buy-Sell agreement, Company By-Laws, Articles of Incorporation, Board Minutes, Budgets, business plans, strategic plans, and Annual Reports from the past several years. Read closely all documents. file of corporate documents current.

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