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ASA Manual Helps Subcontractors Navigate ‘Retainage Laws in the 50 States’

Construction Business Owner

(April 1, 2013) — The American Subcontractors Association unveiled a legislative work kit containing model state legislation to address the lack of payment assurances for construction subcontractors on projects financed by public-private partnerships.

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LEAN Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

Effectively manage concept development, requests for proposals, joint site visits, proposal reviews and negotiations, approvals/notices to proceed, regular inspections, checklists, close-outs, warranties, and more! BIM Model management. Linked BIM model. Service Level Agreement. Make better decisions faster. Components.

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Thinking outside the big box (store)

BD+C

Big box tenants often have Reciprocal Easement Agreements (REA) that lock them in place for decades and can create a myriad of problems when it comes time for repositioning. Often these agreements leave the developer powerless to do anything with the big box space, no matter how dated the façade or potholed the parking field.

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Public RFPs: What Do We Do With You?

Constructonomics

If government entities started negotiating contracts directly with contractors, it would become even more of a mess and everybody knows it. Many of the contracts are a standard AIA agreement, and while they appear to be relatively fair, supplements are often added that would make any right minded contractor run far, far away.

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8 Main Types of Construction Contracts

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The construction industry uses different kinds of agreements depending on the project’s scope, delivery, schedule, budget, and the parties involved. A construction contract agreement gets everyone involved in a project on the same page. . These agreements limit the cost-risk for the customer. If only it were that simple.

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How to Protect Your Business When Employees Get Poached

Pro Builder

Those items proved valuable resources for conducting his new duties—so valuable that his previous employer sued for violation of confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements and for illegal use of trade secrets. Businesses looking to negotiate this rocky terrain have a valuable tool at their command: restrictive covenants.

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Should “Prevailing” Wages Be Tied to Union Rates?

Construction Dive

The federal model, of course, is the Davis-Bacon Act. Too often, say critics, the “prevailing” wages are the same as those negotiated in collective bargaining agreements. By Bruce Jervis Prevailing wage statutes go back to the Great Depression era.

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