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Force majeure in construction: Protecting your projects from unforeseen events by investing on preparation

Lets Build

Some contracts deem force majeure as a relevant event that may grant the contractor ability to file claims on an extended time needed to deliver their obligations under the contract. These claim disputes are common especially when it comes to unfavorable weather as the term is mostly vaguely defined. Crew schedules. Deliveries.

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Contracting Offficer’s Belief That Contractor Could Not Meet Schedule Requirements Insufficient to Support Default Termination

Best Practices Construction Law

On appeal, the Court of Federal Claims held that the contracting office lacked a reasonable belief as to the completion of the project. a belief of the onsite government personnel that the project is now at least 10% behind schedule”. Accordingly, the termination for default was converted to a termination for convenience.

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The Utah Preconstruction Lien Process Explained

Levelset

However, the steps to claim one differ from the standard construction lien process. This includes services such as land surveying, preparing drawings and specifications, and more. Long) story short: A preconstruction lien is available to architects, engineers, surveyors, estimators, schedulers, and the like. construction liens.

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(possible) Roles of BIM in managing Variations

DebunkTheBIM

One area is ‘Visualizing Claims’. Nowadays a claim for a variation (and/or EOT) will include massive numbers of drawings, BOQs, complicated P6 schedules and often lengthy narratives. So, BIM-mers out there with a bit of ‘oomph’ give it a go and plant yourselves within your organization’s Claim teams.

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(Still) Waiting for the Home Building Technology Revolution

Pro Builder

Claims about how new and impressive technologies will revolutionize product and process in home building are nothing new. They thought scheduling was “pretty good.” . Good as gold,” is how he described the schedule, adding, “If they say the house is ready, you can take it to the bank. cbroderick. Mon, 11/30/2020 - 08:29.

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Some vital construction documents for a construction project

Construction Cost Estimating

This type of document also involve overhead costs, what to claim and your rights. Drawings: In this document, there are all set of drawings which are essential to execute the part of the job. These drawings generally comprise of the latest drawings and should be under possession of the contractor before starting the project.

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6 ways to reduce waste on site

Lets Build

These things are all too common and every time scenarios like these take place, time is wasted, conflicts happen, and claims arise. For instance, most project managers have their programmes and schedules locked into MS Project. No wonder that delays, claims and the toxic blame culture still pervade the industry.

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