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Beyond Driver Exoneration: How Dash Cams Reduce Exposure to Nuclear Verdicts

Construction Business Owner

1) Obtain management support. Managements attitudes, values, and beliefs drive a companys culture. Keller Center for Market Insights survey, 51 percent of managers indicated that the most significant determinant of running a safe operation was that their leadership consistently shows that safety is important. In a 2024 J.

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Security in Your Construction Software

Viewpoint Construction Technology

It’s no secret that the right construction software sets you and your business up for success, having a direct effect on the management of estimates, bids, timelines, payroll, and more. Security and data privacy is critical to construction management software. This provides another layer to a solid defense in depth strategy.

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Contract Void Ab Initio: Key Insights into the KBR vs. Corps of Engineers Affirmative Defense

Best Practices Construction Law

The proposed amendment introduces an affirmative defense, contending that Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. Background: The contract in question, executed on July 9, 2013, was for the construction of an Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System site in Deveselu, Romania, with a firm, fixed-price amount of $134,211,592.

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Net Zero Pledges by Businesses are Fraught with Risk

Green Building Law Update

There would have to be some agreement, that does not exist today of what it means to be net zero (e.g., And maybe that includes an agreement that zero is more like the historical absence in the number of columns counted by Sumerian scribes 4,000 years ago than a modern laboratory measure of non-detect?

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Arbitration is Why There is So Little Litigation in Green Building

Green Building Law Update

LEED Certification Agreement has a mandatory arbitration provision. However, the Department of Defense Appropriation Act precludes expenditure of funds on contracts in excess of $1 Million that require subcontractors and employees to consent to arbitration. Even the Green Business Certification Inc.

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LEAN OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting for Sustainable Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Minor New Construction

Job Order Contracting

Integration of People, Process, Information, and Technology with LEAN best management practices (BMPs). Supporting cloud technology – Program, Project, Estimate, & Document Management with export to PDF and spreadsheet formats. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Executive Office of 30 the President, Interim Edition, Feb.

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constructionattorneyblog: Sole Proximate Cause Defense Reaffirmed

Construction Lawyer

The cases with which he has been involved are varied and wide-ranging and include personal injury, breach of contract, criminal defense, commercial disputes, and consumer fraud. You are not our client and we are not your attorneys unless and until you enter into a written retainer agreement with us. Weil-McLain (Docket No.

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