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FIDIC Suite of Contracts

The Constructor

The International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC, French: Federation Internationale des Ingenieurs-Conseil) drafts and publishes the FIDIC.

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Careful Contract Drafting Could Mean Recovery of Liquidated Damages and Actual and Consequential Damages

Constructlaw

The town of New Milford (Town) contracted with Standard Demolition Services, Inc. The Town filed suit against the Contractor for breach of contract to which the Contractor responded with multiple counterclaims. Contractor) to perform the third phase of this cleanup and remediation.

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You Should Not Contract With Your Environmental Consultant

Green Building Law Update

In an effort to mitigate risk you should not contract directly with an environmental consultant, but rather your attorney should contract with that consultant. What is described here is much more than simply good drafting of consultant contacts (e.g., And it may be much more than that.

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New Sustainable Projects Exhibit in 2017 AIA Contract Documents

Green Building Law Update

Last week the American Institute of Architects released the 2017 edition of the A201 family of contract documents, including updated versions of the AIA’s documents developed for the design-bid-build delivery model. The previous version of the design-bid-build contract documents included a Sustainable Project version.

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Construction Classification Criticality – A Draft White Paper

Job Order Contracting

Key Words : Classification systems, Taxonomy, asset model, asset modeling, collaboration, lean construction, integrated project delivery, IPD, job order contracting, JOC, BIM, OmniClass, MasterFormat, UniFormat, Uniclass, building information management, building information models, building information modeling.

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5 Legal Documents All Construction Business Owners Should Use

Construction Business Owner

Have you ever spent hours drafting a contract, only to discover that there is already a standard contract that would have worked well, or at least given you a good starting point? The following five standard legal agreements are worth considering to help clean up your contract processes.

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Job Order Contract Task Order

Job Order Contracting

Phases of a Job Order Contract Task Order. As a the most widely used LEAN construction delivery method, Job Order Contracting can deliver multiple benefits, including the consistent delivery of over 90% of projects on-time, on-budget, and to the satisfaction of all participants and stakeholders. contract-required unit price book.).

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