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Construction Law: March 2024

Construction Law

News Our regular news round up includes a call from insurance companies for pilot projects to find investment models for green infrastructure; failure of another legal challenge to the Stonehenge project; and a warning that the new Building Safety Regulator is looking for a high profile prosecution to make a point.

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Selling Your Home Building Company? Here's What to Expect

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Each community and asset in your portfolio requires diligence, legal paperwork, and closing documents. You also need to prepare key information about the assets that will be presented to bidders, who will then use that data to evaluate your business and populate their own cash flow and valuation models. Who is buying your company?

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Best Practice Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

d) An indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (task order) contract which provides for the use of negotiated, definitive, bilateral orders (i.e., through discussions and negotiations. d) Negotiations. (1) 1) Negotiations on orders $100,000 or more may not begin without an Independent Government Estimate (IGE). (2)

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How to Protect Your Business When Employees Get Poached

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Businesses looking to negotiate this rocky terrain have a valuable tool at their command: restrictive covenants. The legal fees and time required to defend one’s actions can be costly, even when a court strikes down the first employer’s covenants as unreasonable. The Link Between Employee Motivation and Loyalty.

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Dispute Boards: An Approach to the Efficient Resolution of Disputes in the Construction Sector

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Although the parties have tried to resolve their disputes through negotiation and even mediation, they have not been able to reach an acceptable settlement. Under the dispute adjudication board (DAB) model, following a DAB hearing, the board is entitled to issue an interim binding determination on the merits. [14]

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BIM IP

Building Information Management

For some reason BIM authors (architects, engineers, etc) think that because they create the initial BIM information they have the right to full control and to charge for the BIM model throughout the life of the building. The architect doesn’t model ductwork, they use the mechanical engineer’s model. THEFT OF IDEAS.

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“Mitbestimmung” in Tennessee

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The impending works council proposal in Chattanooga is by no means a sure thing: resistance to (or confusion about) the concept and potential legal challenges loom large. Now, buoyed by a brisk recovery in the U.S. The consensus in Germany is that giving workers a seat at the management table has been a significant part of this success story.