Many standard subcontracts contain what in construction parlance is referred to as a contingent payment clause, which provides that a subcontractor’s payment from a...

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...

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....

In most instances, an OSHA inspector will arrive at your door unannounced. Among other things, the inspector will present his or her credentials, say...

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

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...

Beneficial on projects—but they’re not toys By Christopher Scott D’Angelo Drones are used more and more in construction projects—whether for inspections, surveys, designs, monitoring, progress reports,...

On a traditional Design-Bid-Build job, the contractor’s primary role is to implement a design provided to it by the owner, which has typically used...

Section 8(a) of the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act of 1970 authorizes OSHA to inspect workplaces “during regular working hours and at other...

Last year, we wrote about how tariffs were shaking up the construction industry. At the time, our article, “Building Costs and Legal Battles,” examined...