Construction Defect Claims in the Concrete Industry: An Overview

By Thomas More Buckley In an ideal world, proper and careful craftsmanship would be all that was needed to avoid claims for a construction defect....

Project Schedules

Being able to recreate to isolate specific events By Aman Kahlon Despite many construction disputes centering around schedule delays, maintenance and updating construction schedules remains one...

Confined Space Deaths Trigger GDC Litigation

A contractor recently succeeded, on appeal to the Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission (OSHRC), in getting a General Duty Clause citation issued 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...
e-recordkeeping

OSHA Launches E-Recordkeeping Data Submission Platform

On August 1, 2017, OSHA went “live” with its data submission platform that certain employers will need to use when submitting their injury and...

Price Escalation

Construction industry participants—from owners down to subcontractors and suppliers—have become all too familiar with dramatic increases in the price of certain construction materials since...

Tools of the Trade: Part 2 of 2

Read Part 1 Here Arbitrations almost always arise out of contracts, further empowered through laws like the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) or similar state statutory...

Liquidated Damages Clauses

Where a contractor has been delayed by an owner (or by a third party for whom the owner is responsible), that contractor may be...

Tips to Help Navigate Insurance on Projects

By Aman Kahlon In the modern era, most construction contracts incorporate insurance requirements as a primary means to address the risk of unexpected occurrences that...

Zika is Now an OSHA Issue

In August 2016, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed that there are now cases of the Zika virus, which were locally acquired from...