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Construction Law: June 2024

Construction Law

Editor’s comment Biodiversity uncertainty highlighted in NAO report Starving local authorities of funds has hollowed out engineering and planning departments and the impact is undermining government’s ability to pursue its own policies, Editor Nick Barrett says. Guest editor Insolvency in construction: the ‘bounce back’?

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Construction quality management: Everything you need to know

Lets Build

From a builder’s perspective, many potential risk factors can be anticipated and pre-emptively resolved by developing a construction quality management plan. Creating a plan. A construction quality management plan should be drafted as a standard document, to be applied to all future projects. A game of risk.

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New Sustainable Projects Exhibit in 2017 AIA Contract Documents

Green Building Law Update

The new Sustainable Projects Exhibit is a potential game changer that could revitalize the now sluggish if not moribund domestic green building industrial complex, that suffers from the lack of regular involvement of the legal profession, and as I recently wrote the resultant, Less than 20% of Green Building Contracts Properly Drafted.

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What is Building Construction | Steps & Processes of Building Construction | Application of Building Construction | How to do Planning of Building Construction

CivilJungle

All building construction projects possess few common elements – design, financial & legal purposes. So, those with profound experience within the field generate detailed plans for a positive result. How to do Planning of Building Construction? There are 3 varieties of development project planning:-. Scheduling.

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LEED Creates Business Opportunities Beyond The Environmental Industrial Complex

Green Building Law Update

From snow removal to legal services and office cleaning to landscaping with literally hundreds of business sectors in between, business not traditionally thought of as being in the construction field or the environmental industrial complex, are profiting by being green and marketing their contribution to LEED credits.

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How to Avoid Disputes in Construction

Construction Marketing

What follows next is a fierce legal battle that puts both the contractor and the investor on the losing end. You should actually draft an agreement that states what each party will do and the action that should be taken against any party that fails to comply with the laid out rules. Put It in Writing. Regular Communication is Key.

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Major responsibilities of a contractor in construction project

Construction Cost Estimating

Normally, a contractor has to plan, implement, supervise, examine and direct a building construction project from beginning to completion devoid of the scope of the project. Role Of A Contractor In Project Planning The project management team develops a master schedule for the project depending on the completion date of the project.