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The Real Lemon in the Bunch: Understanding Pay-If-Paid Clauses in Construction Contracts

Best Practices Construction Law

The subcontract between the general contractor and the concrete subcontractor contained the following clause: “The obligation of contractor to make payment under this agreement, whether a progress or final payment, or for extra or change orders or delays to the work, is subject to the express condition precedent of payment from the owner. ”.

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7 Steps to Successful Project Closeout

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Problems like delayed change orders, poor communication and lost paperwork may make it harder to close out a project on time. The first step is to track every part of the project to streamline reviewing legal terms and change orders, for example. Delayed change order resolution. The reverse bell curve.

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The Real Lemon in the Bunch: Understanding Pay-If-Paid Clauses

Best Practices Construction Law

The subcontract between the general contractor and the concrete subcontractor contained the following clause: “The obligation of contractor to make payment under this agreement, whether a progress or final payment, or for extra or change orders or delays to the work, is subject to the express condition precedent of payment from the owner.”.

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Construction Arbitration

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These upstream entities include: Financing entities. Change Orders Change order claims (also sometimes referred to as variation claims) stem from work that a contractor performed on behalf of the owner, but that was not part of the contractor’s original scope of work in the parties’ contract.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Accounting & Finance. Beane didn’t achieve success by drafting players based on his emotional judgments or media-based hype. change orders. MANAGEMENT |. ACCOUNTING |. SOFTWARE |. MARKETING |. INSURANCE |. EQUIPMENT |. General Management. Software & Technology. Construction Law. People Management. Green Building.

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Relationship between the designer and the contractor

Construction Business Owner

Accounting & Finance. Many of the contractors immediately shot down the concept with the age old line of questioning that pertains to the architects’ inability to draft an affordably reproduced plan and a perceived desire to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright on a modest budget. change orders. MANAGEMENT |. ACCOUNTING |.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Accounting & Finance. Field changes and conditions were scribbled on note pads. In that relatively short time frame I am able to draft an email from 30,000 feet and send it into the ether to any number of project team members. change orders. MANAGEMENT |. ACCOUNTING |. SOFTWARE |. MARKETING |. INSURANCE |.