Payment and Performance Bonds

Payment and Performance Bonds

As a matter of routine, on public projects contractors are required to obtain payment and performance bonds, often combined into one instrument, to guarantee...

Promising Tech

By Christopher Scott D'Angelo Challenging times can also be opportunities, but only if one knows where to look and has the drive—and capital—for it. Challenging...

Investing in America

For more than a decade, I’ve covered the lack of skilled workers in the trades impacting productivity, profits, and projects across the nation. I’ve...
Drones

A New Reality

In the past few years, the proliferation of drones has expanded exponentially. Once limited to a casual, amateur pastime activity, the use of drones...

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...

The Signed Change Order

A common dispute handled by construction attorneys is the contractor or subcontractor attempting to recover for change order work when there is no written,...
Fixed Price Contract

Making Claims for Additional Money Under a Fixed Price Contract

When a contractor bids a fixed price job, it has to make a series of assumptions about what its direct costs to complete the...
The benefit of mediating

The Art of Mediation

Most modern construction contracts include some kind of dispute resolution provision. Because many in the construction industry favor arbitration in lieu of litigation, arbitration...

When “Smart” Tools  Make Dumb Mistakes

The construction industry is embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and the effects are materializing. In a September 2025 analysis of survey data from over...

The Cost of Going Paperless

Tips for Managing Electronic Document Costs in Litigation When project claims are pursued in litigation, contractors are often blindsided by the costs associated with the...