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Construction quality management: Everything you need to know

Lets Build

It’s a curious paradox that few industries are as tightly regulated and controlled as the construction sector, yet at the same time, few industries are as vulnerable to unexpected events. What is construction quality management? Construction quality management is broadly similar to project management. Creating a plan.

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Derailment inquiry exposes risk management shortfalls

Construction Law

A great divide exists between those who take proactive action to prevent undesirable events and those who just muddle along and wait until the bad thing happens before belatedly doing anything about it. Construction abounds with examples of both approaches, but unfortunately the outcome of the heads in the sand policy can be fatal.

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Advancing Healthcare: Medical Office Buildings at the Forefront of Access and Safety

BD+C

Healthcare Facilities Out is In: Outpatient Care, Medical Office Buildings, and the Future of Healthcare Facilities Developers, owners, investors, and property managers are seeing an extraordinary change in healthcare real estate playing out in real-time, and for those tuned in to this trend in the market—change means opportunity.

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HRECs in a Phase l are Not Recognized Environmental Conditions

Green Building Law Update

By way of background, a Phase I environmental site assessment is the process of evaluating a property’s environmental conditions and assessing potential liability for contamination. History says, ‘see you later.’”.

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LEED Buildings and the Zika Virus

Green Building Law Update

With respect to the likelihood of legal liability associated with the application of insecticides or failure to apply, it is the failure to act properly that may have the greater likelihood for landlord liability. Many LEED buildings have insect management plans (. while most non LEED buildings do not). Across the U.S.

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Zika Virus and LEED Buildings – Redux

Green Building Law Update

Given the large number of inquiries we have responded to about Zika, including about liability for building owners, this is a repost of an updated version of my February blog post on the subject. But where a building has an insect management plan, the negligent implementation of a plan may arguably give rise to liability.

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Construction Law: March 2024

Construction Law

Guest editor Managing change control following the Building Safety Act 2022 Guest Editors Roddy Cormack and Katie Percy of Dentons UK and Middle East LLP warn that the new change control regime introduced under the Building Safety Act could make allocating and managing contractual risk significantly more challenging.