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Skender, Z Modular reach agreement to fabricate multifamily housing components

BD+C

Skender and Z Modular have signed an agreement to manufacture multifamily housing components in a factory on the southwest side of Chicago. Skender, a design, construction, and manufacturing firm, will use Z Modular’s self-bracing structural VectorBloc system to fabricate building components.

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Best Value Construction Delivery Methods – Alliance Contracting, LEAN Construction, Integrated Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Alliance agreements involve joint management of risk for project delivery. All parties jointly manage that risk within the terms of an ‘alliance agreement’, and share the outcomes of the project”. Working as an integrated, collaborative team, they make unanimous decisions on all key project delivery issues. via Four BT, LLC, www.4bt.us

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Firms readied for £750m Parliament repairs deal

Construction Enquirer

The £750m framework is being set up as a successor to the existing MEPFS (Mechanical, Electrical, Public health, and Fabric Safety) framework. This works programme is designed to prevent future deterioration of the mechanical, electrical, public health, fire and life safety systems, building fabric, roofing and stonework.

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Reliance on Letter Agreement Defeats Architect’s Copyright Claim

Construction Lawyer

LEXIS 118757 (August 26, 2014), illustrates once again that letter agreements should be avoided by design professionals. Even though the letter agreement referenced an AIA contract and the parties contemplated that an AIA agreement would later be signed, they never came to an agreement as to the terms of such a contract.

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Lawsuit over First LEED Platinum Building is Over

Green Building Law Update

District Court for Maryland, filed a Stipulation of Dismissal with Prejudice following a confidential Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release. Parallams are a fabricated wood product made by gluing strands of second-growth trees together to form a larger and stronger engineered wood product.

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SHOP DRAWING creates maximum benefits for construction companies

Construction Cost Estimating

The shop drawing is a drawing or collection of set of drawings, diagrams, illustrations, schedules, and other data or information specifically generated or assembled by the contractor, supplier, manufacturer, subcontractor, or fabricator to demonstrate some portion of the work for the approval of architect or engineer.

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Federal Court Confirms Liberal Federal Policy Favoring Arbitration Awards

Constructlaw

ISC) to fabricate the structural steel for the bridge. The court of appeals noted that the Supreme Court has long held a “liberal federal policy favoring arbitration agreements.” The fact that ISC disagreed with the arbitrator’s interpretation was immaterial due to the “liberal federal policy favoring arbitration agreements.”

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