Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

In an era when concern over legal liability for building claims is real, not only enforced by the FTC and state attorneys’ generals, but also in consumer class action suits, it is likely unwise to make the claim that a building is net zero energy use or the like, what does net zero mean?

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Businesses making a net zero claim like, “we will be net zero by 2030” risk a charge that they are misleading consumers. It is one thing when a political leaders in a government make an ESG claim. But it is another thing for a business to make ESG claims about net zero or otherwise that mislead customers.

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Pro Builder

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Jobless Claims Surged This Month, Here’s Why. million jobless claims, but by early September, that number grew to 1.7 million jobless claims. More than half of these new jobless claims come from California, which may come at no surprise. Read more to see the other factors playing into jobless claim growth.

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Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The California Labor Commissioner's Office claims that RDV Construction bounced paychecks and illegally deducted up to 25% from employees' pay.

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Construction and Infrastructure Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Contractors performing work in California are required to be licensed by the California State License Board (“CSLB”). Contractors who perform work in California without being properly licensed are subject to a world of hurt, including civil and criminal penalties ( see, e.g., Cal. & Prof. Code §7065. & Prof.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Learn how these companies improved operations and achieved wins including a 92% drop in claims costs and a reduction of collisions of 74%. Three companies with fleets are applying technology to better serve their customers, improve their efficiency and boost their bottom lines. First Name Last Name Company How many vehicles are your fleet?

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Construction Equipment

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

A new report claims the average California driver loses $2,500 per year as a result of driving on rough roads that are congested, deteriorated or lack certain safety features.'

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Construction Business Owner

APRIL 20, 2023

Learn how these companies improved operations and achieved wins including a 92% drop in claims costs and a reduction of collisions of 74%. Three companies with fleets are applying technology to better serve their customers, improve their efficiency and boost their bottom lines. First Name Last Name Company How many vehicles are your fleet?

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Despite that the Zero Waste movement peaked in about 1998, in the modern context of Net Zero from Net Zero Energy to Net Zero Carbon, we are today with surprising frequency asked about a business being able to claim it is Zero Waste. No company should claim to be Zero Waste. There is a lot of waste out there. But it is not easy.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Carbon reporting will be required by organizations, people, activities, information and resources involved in supplying a product or service in California. This is much more than only applying to Amazon and Walmart, and their supply chains. government and The Group of Seven.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

A business saying though an ESG statement on their website that they are concerned about modern slavery may sound nice, but in 2021 when so many are talking about ESG, that claim will not resonate and quite frankly falls short of what a private enterprise should be doing to prevent these crimes.

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Construction Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2012

"But just because you have lots of change orders doesn’t mean that you are necessarily eligible for a cumulative impact claim. . "But just because you have lots of change orders doesn’t mean that you are necessarily eligible for a cumulative impact claim. ” Read more.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 27, 2014

A case filed last week in a California court is a prime example of the importance of contract documents in a LEED project. Earlier this year the City of Palo Alto gave notice firing Flintco Pacific, Inc., the general contractor responsible for construction of the Mitchell Park library, a proposed LEED Platinum project.

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Construction Law Monitor

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

Prosecutors and the LA mayor, are claiming that the gross negligence of the design and construction of a fireplace caused the fire and therefore the death of the Allen. According to an ABC article , a firefighter was killed back in 2011 when responding to a fire in the 12,500 sq ft mansion of Gerhard Becker.

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Construction Lawyer

JANUARY 15, 2014

A recent California appellate decision, Civic Partners Stockton, LLC v. In the California case, the plaintiff, Civic Partners Stockton, LLC, was the initial developer hired to renovate a hotel. The trial court suggested plaintiff''s claim is not one for conversion of the paper on which a copyrightable work is printed.

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Contractor Magazine

JULY 3, 2014

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CALIFORNIA — The law firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, Seattle, has filed a class action lawsuit against Fluidmaster Inc., claiming that the plumbing product and toilet repair company knowingly sold defective toilet connectors that spontaneously broke, causing millions of dollars in property damage at homeowners’ expense.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JANUARY 28, 2014

One of the key ways to help California businesses grow is for the state government to get out of their way, California’s director of business and economic development said in San Diego. “We That’s exactly what California aims to do with a trio of tax incentive programs that begins in 2014, he said. Long Beach Community College.

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Business Facilities

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As its second distribution center and first facility outside California, Avept’s Indiana operations will allow the company to deliver products to its clients three to four days faster than it can solely from its California facility. Northfield Drive. Source: Avept, Inc.). The Indiana Economic Development Corporation offered Avept Inc.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

While we all have been focused on the Presidential election results, cannabis law reform won in eight out of the nine states where it was on the ballot, from California to Massachusetts, on November 8, making clear the that the public is ready to put the harsh prohibitionist pot policies of the past behind us. Nearly one quarter of U.S.

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ENR Construction

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Stanford and MIT researchers claim that letting big California power plant operate for decade beyond set 2025 closure would cut carbon emissions and save $2.6 billion in power costs.

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Pro Builder

JUNE 22, 2023

California Rep. Maxine Waters Proposes Billions to Help Low-Income Homebuyers ldeakins Thu, 06/22/2023 - 12:30 The new proposal aims to significantly expand funding for low-income housing California Representative Maxine Waters introduced three bills on Wednesday that would expand low-income housing and narrow the country’s racial wealth gap.

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Construction and Infrastructure Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Contractors performing work in California are required to be licensed by the California State License Board (“CSLB”). Contractors who perform work in California without being properly licensed are subject to a world of hurt, including civil and criminal penalties ( see, e.g., Cal. & Prof. Code §7065. & Prof.

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Construction and Infrastructure Law

MARCH 7, 2018

It is industry standard in California for owners of a construction project to make monthly payments to a contractor for work it has completed, less a certain percentage that is withheld as a guarantee of future satisfactory performance. This withholding is called a retention. Code, § 8818.). Coast Iron & Steel , Case No.

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Stok

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The good news: It finally rained in California! The bad news: the Department of Water Resources claims California would need heavy rain and snowfall every other day from now until May to catch up to average annual precipitation totals. The California drought is still on. Green Building Sustainability'

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Construction and Infrastructure Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Nevertheless, critics of the bill anticipate that it will ultimately increase building costs, and will only exacerbate the current shortage of affordable housing in California. Joint employment liability has been an ongoing trend in California. The bill also precludes recovery of liquidated damages or penalties.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 5, 2021

In the Old Testament when Isaac attempts to dig anew his father’s wells the shepherds of the wadi Gerar, claim, “the water is ours” forcing the patriarch to move on to dig a well elsewhere. Supreme Court squarely rejected Mississippi’s claim that Tennessee’s wells are stealing Mississippi’s ground water.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 28, 2015

Against a backdrop of California experiencing the worst drought in its history and the U.S. Water law in the western U.S. is governed by the “prior appropriation” doctrine.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 28, 2015

Against a backdrop of California experiencing the worst drought in its history and the U.S. Water law in the western U.S. is governed by the “prior appropriation” doctrine.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JANUARY 24, 2013

The Apple facility in Texas will become one of four major global operations centers for the tech giant outside of its California HQ. The post Apple’s Austin Operations Center Claims Bronze 2012 Deal Of The Year From Business Facilities appeared first on Business Facilities.

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Construction Equipment

MAY 24, 2017

California's heavy rains claimed another natural disaster last weekend when a portion of Highway 1 was buried under a 40-foot layer of dirt and rocks. The slide continued past the highway, creating a new apron of land along the coastline.

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Job Order Contracting

JULY 28, 2021

California Contractor Tests the Bounds of Job Order Contracting. B291940 (October 26, 2020), 2nd District Court of Appeal, involved a JOC contract, a JOC contractor who charged rates higher than those specified in the unit price book, and the JOC contractor’s defenses against claims by the public entity that it had overcharged for its work.

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ENR Construction

MAY 13, 2021

Hathaway Dinwiddie denies suit claims of "hostile work environment" on $700M University of Southern California project but agreed to payment and anti-bias mitigation.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 22, 2021

Claims about human rights including that no slaves or indentured servants are involved in a business or its supply chain are not new, and have been prevalent, for example, since the 1660s with the Quakers in England who included those representations in promoting their businesses.

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Construction Lawyer

JUNE 24, 2005

California: expert can seek equitable contribution from law firm. in a recent California Case , the appellate court reversed summary judgment in favor of a law firm and allowed an expert to proceed with an equitable contribution claim against the law firm that hired him. Then, again, this was in California.

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Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Featured in this Week’s Construction Claims Advisor:Contractor with Knowledge of Sub’s Unlicensed Status Could Enforce Subcontract‘Aesthetic Effect’ Exception to Arbitration Based on Trade UsageContractor Did Not Violate California Claims Act

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Construction Law Monitor

DECEMBER 17, 2012

In addition 15 states in the United States, including California, require such programs. Conventional wisdom claims that safety testing and workplace regulations, such as those imposed represent a job-killing financial drain on businesses. percent in injury claims. Reduced Employer Liability. Significant Savings.

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Contractor Magazine

MAY 7, 2014

Handling license board claims. The Contractors State Licensing Board (CLSB) was designed to protect California consumers by licensing and regulating the construction industry. DARREN BARKER & ERIC RANS. read more.

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