Getting to Know Your Contract

Take time to review your contract and become familiar with key requirements and obligations. After a contract is successfully negotiated and signed, it is vitally...

Construction Ethics? You Bet!

Doctors, lawyers, and many other professionals are subject to specific codes of ethics that govern their performance and conduct. Architects and engineers are often...
minimizing risk

Contracting to Minimize Risk

Most sophisticated parties want to avoid lawsuits because they understand that such disputes may be detrimental to a project and end up causing everyone...

Feds Eye Effectiveness of State Workers’ Compensation Systems

A new report by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) highlights the ways in which monetary compensation and medical care for workers harmed in...
OSHA

OSHA and Hazard Assessments: Electrical Hazards in the Workplace

OSHA requires that employers “instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions” and the regulations applicable to the workplace “to control...

FinCEN Efforts

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Treasury Department issued a notice to financial institutions on August 15, 2023, calling attention to...

Design Build

The traditional method of project delivery consists of three distinct phases, design-bid-build, with a transition from one phase to the next only after “completion”...

OSHA Forecast 2017

The dust has barely settled from the most contentious presidential election in history, and it is clear that big changes are in store for...
Learning Curves & Lost Productivity Claims

Learning Curves & Lost Productivity Claims

By Christopher S. Drewry In construction, productivity is often viewed as manhours per unit of work—greater productivity means fewer manhours spent per unit of work....

ASME B30 – Hoisting Your Crane Safety and Compliance Higher

OSHA will be the first to admit that its safety standards set forth “minimum” safety standards. In the most basic of terms, this means...