Recent Texas Supreme Court case offers important industry wide lessons in enforceability Liquidated damages are well known within the construction industry. Typically, parties designate damages...

Factoring, as a form of commercial finance, has a long established history. It is, essentially, the business of buying accounts receivable at a discount—a...

You think you’re having a bad day when OSHA knocks on your door or shows up at your worksite, right? What about when OSHA...

Most contractors are aware of the importance of avoiding so-called “material” breaches of their contracts—i.e., breaches that are significant enough to give the other...

Success in any construction project requires having the right tools for the job. While most construction industry professionals know the tools of their own...

On November 18, 2016, OSHA published a final rule on Walking-Working Surfaces and Personal Fall Protection Systems (29 CFR 1910 Subpart D&I) that takes...

Mitigate Risk: Effective Strategies for Employers By Justin Kaplan, Esq. “Hey, how you doing?” engineer Joseph Scott asked coworker and fellow engineer DeWayne Craddock in the...

In its recent “DIRT Report,” the Common Ground Alliance featured an interactive tool that showed sobering year-to-year statistics on the frequency of underground utility...

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

If you look up into the sky in metro areas across Texas, you will find cranes busily working among the skyscrapers. There are also...