Evaluation Disputes
By Nicholas T. Solosky
The Contract Disputes Act (CDA) creates the framework for handling “claims” against the government on Federal contracts. Contract claims most commonly...
Workforce Development Assessment Tool
In the modern construction industry, finding and retaining a sufficient number of reliable, skilled workers proves to be an ongoing challenge faced by many...
Arbitration Expectations
By Aman Kahlon
Arbitration is one of the preferred mechanisms of dispute resolution in the construction industry. Understanding how an arbitration will unfold is useful...
OSHA Puts Construction Company Out of Business … Permanently!
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...
What’s the Risk?
Most construction professionals probably would not enter a contract if they were not absolutely certain what the work was, when it needed to be...
OSHA & MSHA Penalties Significantly Raised
On July 1, 2016, the US Department of Labor (DOL) issued an interim final rule raising civil penalties by nearly 80 percent in some...
Delay Issues
Since March, the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the United States and the rest of the world. Beyond the obvious health consequences and...
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....
When to Stop Digging
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...
Mitigating the Impacts of New Tariffs
As most construction professionals are now certainly aware, on March 8, 2018, President Trump executed two Presidential Proclamations establishing a 25 percent tariff on...