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9 Types of Insurance You Need to Protect Your Contractor Business

Construction Marketing

General Liability Insurance. This type of coverage will protect your company from various liabilities , including injury claims, and cover medical expenses. General liability also protects businesses if they cause damage to a customer’s property or if any product installations go awry, like faulty plumbing that causes leaking.

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Collaborative Construction Solution – Public Sector

Job Order Contracting

The Public Sector facilities management sector has long suffered from poor productivity growth and high levels economic and environmental waste. Poor performance of one participant will often excuse other participants from the need to strictly fulfil their obligations, or entitle them to claim additional money from the owner.

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Lawsuit over First LEED Platinum Building is Over

Green Building Law Update

With an Order Of Judgment, in favor of Permapost Products Company against Weyerhaeuser Company filed on November 17, 2015, resolving the final third party claims, the more than 15 year old disputes and differences over the construction of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Philip Merrill Environmental Center, in Annapolis, Maryland, are over.

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Activities and liabilities of Quantity Surveyor and Quality Manager

Construction Cost Estimating

Quality Manager: The purpose of the quality managers is to make sure that the product or service that an organization renders is suitable for purpose, reliable and satisfies both external and internal requirements.

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Litigation over First LEED Platinum Building Comes to an End

Green Building Law Update

to design the Philip Merrill Environmental Center, CBF’s headquarters, on the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, Maryland. SmithGroup’s ‘green’ design called for exposed structural wood members outside the envelope of the Merrill Center, including some that penetrated the building’s façade. a then new, LEED low emitting material).

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Litigation over First LEED Platinum Building Comes to an End

Green Building Law Update

to design the Philip Merrill Environmental Center, CBF’s headquarters, on the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, Maryland. SmithGroup’s ‘green’ design called for exposed structural wood members outside the envelope of the Merrill Center, including some that penetrated the building’s façade.

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#90:  Government Contractor Immunity

NH Construction Law

A few years back I blogged (#24) on the Spearin doctrine, which holds that adherence to government-imposed design specifications absolves the contractor from contract liability to the government when the finished product fails to perform as intended. But what about suing the contractor who implemented the faulty design?