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#93:  Spoliation During Construction

NH Construction Law

Parties to a lawsuit, or who reasonably should anticipate future litigation, have a duty not to destroy evidence crucial to their opponents’ claims or defenses. But what about a building under construction? In a Massachusetts Superior Court case, 333 Massachusetts Avenue Limited Partnership v. ” Murray v.

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Google, Environmentalists and University Push Methane-Leak Detection

ENR Construction

National Grid, which serves New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, is set to be the second U.S. natural-gas utility to use technology advanced by Google Earth, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Colorado State University to boost large-scale methane-leak detection.

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

In a conspicuous example, language in the Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 for the first time requires the Department of Defense, the largest owner of buildings in North America to respond to sea level rise and flooding by constructing new mission critical buildings 3 feet above the base flood 100 year elevation.

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Saving Time And Money On The Estimation Process – Massachusetts Contractors Academy

Building Information Management

By Massachusetts Contractors on May 19, 2015 – [link]. 4Clicks provides advanced solutions for the construction industry, most notably with the e4Clicks software which streamlines the estimation process. e4Clicks may be “made by and for conractors,” but it’s good enough for the Department of Defense. Contact Us.

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

In a conspicuous example, language in the Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 for the first time requires the Department of Defense, the largest owner of buildings in North America to respond to sea level rise and flooding by constructing new mission critical buildings 3 feet above the base flood 100 year elevation.

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Some of the Oldest Buildings in the U.S.

Natural Building

Originally constructed in Ardmore, Alabama in 1808 before being restored at to the Burritt on the Mountain museum in 2007, the Joel Eddins House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. New England’s oldest stone house, the Henry Whitfield property in Connecticut, was constructed in 1639. It was built for the Rev.

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#125:  Pay-if-Paid Clauses and Contractor Default

NH Construction Law

Quinn Construction, Inc. Unless the legislature steps in to limit enforcement of pay-if-paid provisions where the subcontractor is not at fault– as for instance, Massachusetts has done for larger projects, M.G.L. Skanska USA Building, Inc. , 730 F.Supp.2d 2d 401, 421 (E.D. 2010), didn’t think so.