BD+C

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Giants 300 results will be published in the July, August, and September 2020 issues of Building Design+Construction magazine. . . You’ll want to be sure your firm is on the Giants 300 lists, as potential clients look to these rankings for prospective firms to design and construct their future projects.

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Pro Builder

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Could Offsite Construction Help the Industry's Labor Issue? Thu, 09/10/2020 - 09:39. Construction labor shortages are only one of the issues the industry faces today and one of the most important. Or it may be the answer to the, “how do we create better homes and have fewer quality issues?” cbroderick.

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Pro Builder

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Builder confidence increased for the first time in three months, edging up a point in September to 76. Lumber reached more than $1,600 per thousand board feet this spring, but the more recent price has been around $400. “The

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Pro Builder

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Mon, 11/02/2020 - 10:44. According to Forbes, 6 million Americans missed a mortgage or rent payment just in September. And from the legal standpoint, the pandemic has created its own slew of court issues. As the Housing Market Booms, Millions of Americans Miss Mortgage Payments. cbroderick. It is a disaster.

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Pro Builder

OCTOBER 21, 2020

September Starts Continue Historic Climb. Wed, 10/21/2020 - 11:54. Residential construction continues to make its case for being a beacon for economic recovery as the pace of single-family starts in September was the highest production rate since the pre-crash summer of 2007. Starts increased 8.5% Market Data + Trends.

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Pro Builder

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Fewer First-Time Buyers Purchased Homes in September. Thu, 10/29/2020 - 10:55. In September, the share dropped to 31% from April’s 36%, according to the National Association of Realtors. But the annualized rate of first-time buyers increased to 2 million in September from 1.32 cbroderick. million in May.

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Pro Builder

JUNE 17, 2021

Pandemic Exposed Deep Housing Issues, Says Harvard Report. Harvard’s report specified housing near jobs, affordable housing, starter homes, and racial inequalities are severe housing issues. cbroderick. Thu, 06/17/2021 - 10:40. Bloomberg reports aging rental units have a $45 billion repair backlog.

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Construction Junkie

JULY 20, 2020

The Trump Administration has recently released its Spring 2020 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions , which reports on the actions that each of the administrative agencies expect to issue in the future. OSHA issued two separate standards, one for construction, and one for general industry and maritime.

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Pro Builder

APRIL 26, 2021

Despite ongoing building material issues, new single-family home sales flourished in March, reaching the strongest seasonally adjusted annual rate since September 2006, according to the National Association of Home Builders. compared to March 2020, according to data from the U.S. from February and 66.8% months’ supply in March.

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Pro Builder

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The price tops the most recent peak of $955 set in September 2020 and continues a general pattern of escalation since initial COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions were put into effect nearly a year ago. Timber Sourcing Issues? and Canada. NAHB CEO Jerry Howard | Photo c. Herman Farrer. for a time.

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Pro Builder

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Tue, 09/15/2020 - 09:38. NAHB says off-site construction remains an innovative approach to the industry’s labor shortage issue, which coincides with the housing affordability crisis. The webinars are entirely free and will begin September 21 and end September 25. cbroderick. housing shortage.

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Pro Builder

DECEMBER 7, 2021

NAHB Chairman's Letter : NAHB Takes Action to Solve Supply Chain Issues. Steel mill products, for example, climbed 5% in September, following a 5.1% In the 14 months since July 2020, steel prices are up 134.1%. Tue, 12/07/2021 - 06:00. Chuck Fowke. increase in August. Tariffs and Transportation.

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Constructlaw

APRIL 1, 2021

Supreme Court announced that it would consider the hotly contested issue of whether 28 U.S.C. The latest iteration in this saga arrived in March 2020 and September 2020 when the Fourth and Seventh Circuits, respectively, reached opposite conclusions on precisely the same set of facts in the case of Servotronics.

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Pro Builder

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Thu, 10/22/2020 - 10:41. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer requesting Congress and the administration take urgent action on this issue. Lawmakers Urge Trump to Act on Lumber Shortage. In tandem with the Association, nearly 100 Democratic and Republican lawmakers signed on to an Oct. A similar message was sent to the U.S.

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Pro Builder

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Mon, 11/16/2020 - 10:23. September new home sales in Denver advanced by 95.3% We have seen a huge flight from markets where there is an affordability issue, like San Francisco and Los Angeles,” said Pat Hamill, founder of Denver-based Oakwood Homes. Denver Home Sales Outpace National Average. cbroderick.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 13, 2019

On September 20, 2019, the Financial Services Committee in the U.S. Although there is little if any chance that the bill will become law given the current politics in Washington, DC, the bill’s passage in the House Committee highlights that issues of ESG disclosures continuing to be pressing. However, issues of ESG live on.

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Pro Builder

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

New Home Sales Flatten from September to October. Mon, 11/30/2020 - 10:07. Buyer traffic remained strong in October even as the country’s attention was focused on the elections and policy issues going into 2021,” said NAHB Chairman Chuck Fowke, a custom home builder from Tampa, Fla. cbroderick. Still, October sales remained 41.5%

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 30, 2020

In context, last year I did not hit that 1,000 mark until late September, and while it is an unscientific indicator, because it is often a gateway assessment into matters of environmental law, I find, annually, it is an accurate gauge of environmental law activity. In 2020, the state of the environmental industrial complex is strong.

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GCP Applied Technologies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Mon, 09/14/2020 - 17:52. September 14, 2020. Product compatibility is an issue that leads to material warranty claims. Residential building material warranties. michael.delros…. GCP Applied Technologies. This article, at a glance: Warranty types. How to read material warranties. Review GCP material warranty.

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Pro Builder

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Tue, 09/08/2020 - 12:42. With the exception of the coronavirus, which has impacted every industry, the lumber issue is the most troubling roadblock on the path to housing affordability right now,” said NAHB Chairman Chuck Fowke. . But the shortage of materials isn't solely a lumber issue, Dietz points out. cbroderick.

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Pro Builder

MAY 7, 2021

A coalition of landlords and property owners brought the suit to court arguing that the CDC did not have authority to issue a federal eviction ban. The Justice Department called for a hold on a U.S. The assistance process typically takes a while to complete and involves multiple “bureaucratic hoops to jump through.”.

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Construction Specifier

AUGUST 1, 2022

Global trade is much lower than it was in the pre-pandemic world, and supply line shortages have caused a number of issues in several industries, especially the construction industry. One issue is the meteoric rise of steel prices, which has caused significant construction industry challenges.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) recently issued a decision regarding a contractor’s claim for increased performance costs due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The ASBCA also addressed the contractor’s reliance on the July 2, 2020 DoD memo.

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Pro Builder

JUNE 3, 2020

2020 Housing Giants Report: The Magnificent Middle. Wed, 06/03/2020 - 13:00. 2020 Housing Giants Ranked. Offering a mix of starter and first- and second-move-up product priced from the $380,000s to $800,000s, most of it presold, the company made plans to expand into nearby Yolo County in 2020. Then there’s No.

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GCP Applied Technologies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Mon, 09/14/2020 - 17:52. September 14, 2020. Product compatibility is an issue that leads to material warranty claims. Residential building material warranties. michael.delros…. GCP Applied Technologies. This article, at a glance: Warranty types. How to read material warranties. Review GCP material warranty.

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Residential Materials Products Claims 78

GCP Applied Technologies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Mon, 09/14/2020 - 17:52. September 14, 2020. Product compatibility is an issue that leads to material warranty claims. Residential building material warranties. michael.delros…. GCP Applied Technologies. This article, at a glance: Warranty types. How to read material warranties. Review GCP material warranty.

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Residential Materials Products Claims 78

Construction and Infrastructure Law

JUNE 20, 2023

On June 10, 2023, a jury in Portland, Oregon found PacifiCorp and Pacific Power (collectively, “PacifiCorp”) liable for negligence, trespass, and nuisance based on a series of four wildfires that occurred during Labor Day weekend in 2020. PacifiCorp prevailed against the plaintiffs on the claim of inverse condemnation. PacifiCorp, et al. ,

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Pro Builder

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In September, the HMI stood at 46, after peaking at 90 in late 2020, and it was 83 in January of this year —for the HMI, anything below 50 indicates poor market conditions. Another important indicator of industry health is the rate of single-family housing starts, which increased by 13% in both 2020 and 2021. Census Bureau.

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Pro Builder

AUGUST 3, 2021

RM: We officially launched in September of 2020. We did a short pilot with them from September of 20, 20 through February. There was a HERS H2O pilot in 2019 that involved a dozen or so builders, but what plans are there for rolling out the program to more builders? . PB: WaterSense 2.0 just rolled out a few months ago.

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Constructlaw

JULY 6, 2020

This article was originally published in Government Construction (Volume 5, Issue 2 – Summer 2020), an ABA Division 13 Quarterly Newsletter. The United States Civilian Board of Contract Appeals (the “Board”) recently issued a decision that may be particularly pertinent in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. 22, 2020).

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NH Construction Law

JULY 12, 2022

From September of 2019 until now, the 2015 versions have been incorporated into New Hampshire’s state building code, RSA 155-A. Treating such codes as admissible on the issue, not as unalterable establishments of the standard of care, strikes me as the sounder approach. But the law takes a while to catch up. ” Lemery v.

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Constructlaw

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

On September 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit addressed the perennially thorny issue of whether the courts or arbitrators retain the authority to resolve questions involving the enforceability of arbitration agreements. 14, 2020). In MZM Construction Company, Inc. 1] MZM Construction Company, Inc.

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Pro Builder

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Sun, 09/27/2020 - 08:00. See the original article in the September/October issue of Pro Builder. . Pro Builder 2020 Top 100 Products. . . 13 Standouts in New Window and Door Products. Maynard, Editor-in-Chief, Products. The online version of this article includes five additional products. 13 interior finishes. .

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Flynn

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Roofing crews from Flynn’s Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Denver branches returned in September – before the sun begins to dip below the horizon at the North Pole – to perform preventive maintenance work on potential problem areas. The post Santa’s North Pole Workshop Roof Maintenance 2020 appeared first on Flynn Group of Companies.

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Safety Services Company

JULY 19, 2021

For instance, the most cited standard in the manufacturing industry from October 2019 to September 2020 was related to the control of hazardous energy (lockout / tagout). According to OSHA’s database, electrical safety standards have historically been some of the most frequently cited standards across multiple industries.

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 28, 2019

However, the monetary penalty may only be imposed if the unit of county government first issues a written notice of violation and the violation is not corrected within three months of the written notice. Senate Bill 516 (passed) increases the RPS from 25% by 2020 to 50% by 2030 and makes other related changes. Expanded Polystyrene Ban.

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Construction Test

MAY 9, 2020

“Booking an overseas holiday in 2020 is unlikely until the travel restrictions are lifted or we have a date set for when they will be lifted,” he said. “Booking an overseas holiday in 2020 is unlikely until the travel restrictions are lifted or we have a date set for when they will be lifted,” he said.

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