Best Practices Construction Law

JUNE 21, 2022

The government argued that under the Sovereign Acts Doctrine actions taken by the United States in its sovereign capacity shielded it from contractual liability for those acts, including the actions taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Ignorance is not a defense. And that does not include forced prison labor, including for example the widely reported Chinese prison labor-derived nails that entered the United States.). There is no morally defensible reason for not doing everything in our power to end modern slavery and human trafficing.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

United States explained back in 1865: The two characters which the government possesses as a contractor and as a sovereign cannot be thus fused; nor can the United States while sued in the one character be made liable in damages for their acts done in the other. As the Court of Claims in Jones v.

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NH Construction Law

JUNE 30, 2020

The plaintiffs in Yearsley sued to recover damages for land that was washed away as the result of work done by a contractor in building dikes in the Missouri River under a contract with the United States Government. United Technologies Corp. , United Technologies Corp. , ” Id. ” Campbell-Ewald Co.

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NH Construction Law

JUNE 26, 2023

The statute applies to claims that are either “presented to an officer, employee, or agent of the United States,” or “made to a contractor, grantee, or other recipient” who has authority to distribute that money or property on the government’s behalf. Supreme Court in United States ex rel.

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Pro Builder

OCTOBER 4, 2021

RM: Very often those businesses don’t have large or sophisticated IT or risk management departments that are actively engaged in maintaining defensive security for the business. We don’t just leave it to the IT people to take care of and maintain the defensive perimeter. You have perimeter defenses. so you have elevation.

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Pro Builder

OCTOBER 4, 2021

RM: Very often those businesses don’t have large or sophisticated IT or risk management departments that are actively engaged in maintaining defensive security for the business. We don’t just leave it to the IT people to take care of and maintain the defensive perimeter. You have perimeter defenses. so you have elevation.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 12, 2016

The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation which will require select government vendors, from landlords to defense contractors, to indicate if and where they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 12, 2016

The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation which will require select government vendors, from landlords to defense contractors, to indicate if and where they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Major Holdings, LLC , held a party could not assert a CERCLA defense because its Phase l report did not comply with the EPA rule. For the unenlightened, this is hugely significant because a Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is conducted in the vast majority of the 5.6 9601) and petroleum products.”.

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Natural Building

APRIL 28, 2022

Here is a collection of some of the oldest buildings in the United States. A defensive fort that can be traced to 1672, Castillo De San Marcos was built under the direction of Florida’s Spanish governor to protect the city of St. It is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States.

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Best Practices Construction Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

United States , the contractor who had been awarded a fixed price, time sensitive contractor to repair pavement at an Air Force base filed suit against the Department of Defense (“Agency”), alleging it had been wrongfully terminated for default. ” In Alutiiq Manf. Contractors, LLC v.

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The Korte Company

JULY 9, 2013

Here at The Korte Company, we’ve been working with the United States Department of Defense for more than 30 years on projects for every branch of the military. So when they need Design-Build healthcare facilities for the greatest fighting force in the world, they know they can count on us.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 2, 2017

The United States Department of the Army is attributed with initially developing and deploying Job Order Contracting during the early 1980s. Department of Defense: West Point Academy in 1985, and multiple United States Air Force bases in 1986. The History of What is JOC Today.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 23, 2013

This facility represents a US Government investment of over $60 million the domestic manufacturing base for defense technology, funded by the Department of Defense Title III Program. Aerospace And Defense Archives Articles By Industry Articles By Location California Daily News Featured Post Online Features U.S. -

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 19, 2020

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances are a group of more than 4,000 man-made chemicals that have been manufactured and used in a variety of industries around the globe, including in the United States since the 1940s and have been the most extensively produced and studied of these chemicals.

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Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The United States Department of the Army is attributed with initially developing and deploying Job Order Contracting during the early 1980s. Department of Defense: West Point Academy in 1985, and United States Air Force bases in 1986. The History of Job Order Contracting.

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NH Construction Law

DECEMBER 19, 2020

It is often said that a payment bond surety may assert all of the contractual defenses to payment enjoyed by its principal. United States ex rel. 2d 404 (1990), construing Florida law, held that general contractor’s “pay-if-paid” defense was not available to a surety. Walton Technology v. 33, 614 S.E.2d

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This is a very unscientific consideration of all the non-confidential projects in the United States that achieved certification during the week of October 1 through October 7, 2013. 22 of the 45 projects are owned by government and 10 of those are associated with the Department of Defense.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

That shockingly large number does not include forced prison labor, including forESG example the widely reported Chinese prison labor-derived nails that entered the United States.). “To There is no morally defensible reason for not doing everything in our power to end modern slavery. Today more than 35.8

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Job Order Contracting

JULY 24, 2023

private interest sued the United States as a “bid protest to challenge the decision of the Department of Defense (“DOD”) to standardize its facility condition assessment needs through the Sustainment Management System (“SMS”)”2 2014: NNSA implements BUILDER with two pilots (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Pantex Plant) 1 S. .;

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The House of Representatives is not the government of the United States. Senate is not the government of the United States. The president is not the government of the United States. The American people are , and always have been, the government of the United States. Far West U.S. Plains U.S.

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Constructlaw

AUGUST 3, 2023

17] The court explained that its prior precedent erroneously “equated the defenses to recognition and enforcement with the grounds for vacatur” [18] and that this was “plainly and palpably wrong.” [19] 3d at 1446 (“[T]he Convention’s enumeration of defenses is exclusive.”). [13] 11] See, e.g. , Ario , 618 F.3d 3d at 292; Yusuf , 126 F.3d

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 7, 2018

I am optimistic that a global conversation, although centered in the United States, has begun where people are discovering and inventing new ways to build sustainably. Earlier versions of these green building standards, codes and rating systems were largely written in silos by partisans.

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Business Facilities

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Export-Import Bank of the United States becomes a political football. Business Facilities (BF) Magazine. No Credit Here appeared first on Business Facilities (BF) Magazine.

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Best Practices Construction Law

MARCH 5, 2018

The Attorney General has primary authority for enforcing FCA, but the law includes what is called a qui tam provision, which permits a private party to bring a civil action alleging fraud against the Government on its own behalf as well as on behalf of the United States.

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Building Information Management

JULY 20, 2012

Department of Defense. United States Postal Service (Not Available at this Time). Department of Defense. United States Postal Service (Not Available at this Time). The latter, in theory, has the technical expertise to effect change, put apparently continues to suffer from management issues.

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Business Facilities

AUGUST 23, 2017

Arizona offers one of the lowest costs of doing business in the United States, primarily because of low taxes and small state government. Boasting a population of nearly 500,000, Mesa is the 36th largest city in the United States and second largest in the Phoenix-Mesa metro area. percent, here the number is only 8.4

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 3, 2017

There is no single comprehensive federal data privacy law in the United States. So there are implications for owners and operators of green buildings. Therefore, DoD sustainable proponents have brokered this waiver with USGBC, allowing DoD to continue to utilize LEED without compromising data.

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Safety Services Company

JUNE 17, 2013

This article was written by Safety Consultants with Safety Services Company , we provide Construction, Manufacturing, and General Industry Safety Programs to over 100,000 clients across the United States and Canada. A New York State law that has protected workers for more than 100 years is in danger of undergoing a major revision.

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Business Facilities

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The United States—with the best university system in the world supplying the brainpower for the most-advanced labs—has serenely assumed that its status as the global technology leader would not be challenged in our lifetimes. But the Chinese, descendants of a 5,000-year-old empire, take a much longer view.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 30, 2014

The idea of defending the United States from a land invasion by moving thousands of tanks rapidly across the country may seem preposterous today, but it was considered a national security priority in the 1950s. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MAY 26, 2014

The new California company will have 8,000 employees and contractors and will be California’s largest natural gas producer and the state’s largest oil and gas producer on a gross-operated barrels of oil equivalent basis. Houston serves as an ideal gateway to the rest of the United States, as well as Canada and Mexico.”.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

AUGUST 9, 2013

From its early beginnings in proposal documents in 1983, to its eventual cancellation in 1993, the Superconducting Super Collider facility heralded the United States’ preeminence in scientific discovery. In 2012, Magnablend became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Univar.

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Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 4, 2023

The RSMeans city cost index (CCI) and the Department of Defense area cost factor (ACF) index are two primary examples of location factor publications. m (4 inches) thick slab, vapour barrier and welded wire fabric in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, c oncrete was found to be underestimated by 18% and vapour barrier by as much as 67%.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JUNE 27, 2013

network, with flights connecting customers from more than 220 countries and territories worldwide to every corner of the United States. Aerospace And Defense Archives Articles By Industry Articles By Location Articles By Topic Daily News Featured Post Kentucky Logistics And Distribution Online Features U.S.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

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