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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? While there are several documents that contractors use regularly, there are also other lesser-known legal documents that owners may find useful.

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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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Pre-Bid Documents and Estimates Can’t Be Hidden Behind the Curtain in Disputed Delay Claims

Best Practices Construction Law

The contractor claimed that the City breached its contract by supplying incomplete and inaccurate contract documents, which allegedly caused delays and a two-year extension to the project completion. ” My littlest chuckled. The contractor’s $15.7 million delay claim included approximately $2.3 The contractor’s $15.7

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Construction Classification Criticality – A Draft White Paper

Job Order Contracting

The myriad of requirements, specifications, documents, data types, inter-relationships, and dependencies encountered throughout the life-cycle of built structures demands would be better understood and managed if based upon common terms, definitions, and data structures.

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Have You Seen All the Contract Documents?

Construction Dive

Not surprisingly, these customized contracts tend to favor the drafting party. Sometimes, the other party never actually sees the document. The drafting party seeks to impose its terms through reference. By Bruce Jervis Many project owners, contractors and subcontractors use their own “standard” forms of agreement.

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CEIR seeks public input on draft of PV racking and attachment document

BD+C

The Center for Environmental Innovation in Roofing (CEIR) has released the first public draft of PV Racking and Attachment Criteria for Effective Low Slope Metal Panel Roof System Integration for an initial round of public comment.

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Standard Arbitration Clause for Construction Contract

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The full document is available at [link]. The document details a Standard Clause providing sample language for the parties to a domestic U.S. Access full document (PDF). Accreditation: An extract from Thomas Reuters Practical Law. or international construction agreement to agree to arbitration of disputes.