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Can Change Orders Jeopardize Bond Protection?

Construction Dive

The bonds incorporate the terms of the construction contract or subcontract by reference. And those contracts authorize alteration through change orders. But what if the surety discovers that the change order process has radically altered the contract it originally agreed to cover? ” Read more.

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Digital Builder Podcast Ep 22: How Specialty Contractors Can Navigate Contracts & Get Paid On Time

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Best practices for handling change orders. For this reason, construction professionals must find better ways to craft and negotiate agreements. She recalls her experience speaking with a fellow attorney who had to go through a 129-page subcontract that could have been cut down to ten pages. Make sense of your contracts.

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The Real Lemon in the Bunch: Understanding Pay-If-Paid Clauses in Construction Contracts

Best Practices Construction Law

Contractors have a means of shifting the risk of non-payment by the owner to its subcontractor by including a certain payment provisions in the subcontract agreement. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit concluded that a “pay if paid” clause in a subcontract was not ambiguous and, therefore, enforceable against the subcontractor.

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Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders.

Job Order Contracting

Adversarial, change-order-oriented environment is common between owner, A/E, and contractor. Change orders may be reduced versus DBB due to A/E-contractor collaboration and contractual relationship. Change orders are may be reduced due to A/E and contractor coordination through the design phase. Advantages.

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Job Order Contract Execution Guide – Sample Template

Job Order Contracting

PLEASE NOTE: In occasions where the contractor is asked to provide materials, equipment, and/or subcontract pricing for work by direct bidding that may, or. These negotiations must precede the JO award/approval and are not allowed on a Change Order basis. generation of the purchase order for each project. (5)

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The Best Way for Trade Contractors to Stay Out of the Courtroom

Pro Builder

Once we decide what actions to take, if there is a price increase, I will prepare a written change order explaining the additional work and the increased cost, I will not start on the extra work until I have a signed change order approving the work.". Payment Terms. Trade Contractors.

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#100:  Dealing With Rising Costs

NH Construction Law

Another approach is to negotiate with subcontractors or suppliers to lock in prices for an extended period of time, thereby kicking the price increase risk downstream – but in the present volatile market, subs and suppliers are increasingly reluctant to hold their prices for long, typically not more than 60 or 90 days.

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