By Luke J. Farley and Dixie T. Wells One of the most important functions of a construction contract is to allocate risk between the parties....

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....

By Christopher Scott D'Angelo The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced that it reached a settlement and the entry of a Consent Order with...

By Danielle Waltz and Alexis Hailpern “Except in the middle of a battlefield, nowhere must men coordinate the movement of other men and all materials...

Determining Liability and the Responsible Party By Thomas M. Buckley In today’s legal landscape, contractors need to be on guard against claims for an injury to...

Delay damage claims can be difficult, time consuming, complex, and expensive. Some of this is the nature of the claims themselves. But another contributing...

Decision may be helpful for contractors dealing with government entities Most contractors have worked on projects that were delayed for reasons outside their control. Many...

In Gilchrist Constr. Co., LLC v. Louisiana Dep’t of Trans. and Dev., a Louisiana appellate court recently confirmed that a contractor was able to...

Few technological advances have been as transformative or controversial as artificial intelligence (AI). These pioneering technologies, ranging from autonomous machinery to predictive algorithms, are...

A contractor’s ability to make a steady profit depends not just on the ability to complete projects, but on the ability to complete them within...