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Construction Lead Services: Dodge vs. Reed

Construction Marketing

Value of the project and often value of major subcontracts. RCD claims to have a stronger group of reporters on private projects. Dodge does the same kind of thing through their hands-on customer service, which they claim as a huge differentiator. The company also claims Dodge shared what it learned with its sales staff.

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#127:  Subcontract "Flow Down" of Prime Contract Terms

NH Construction Law

Commercial construction subcontracts frequently incorporate by reference provisions of the prime contract between the owner and the general contractor, often with language requiring the subcontractor to assume toward the general contractor all duties owed by the general contractor to the owner. Such was the case in Flatiron-Lane v.

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Construction Leads – So Many Leads, So Little Time!

Construction Marketing

Value of the project and often value of major subcontracts. RCD claims to have a stronger group of reporters on private projects. Dodge does the same kind of thing through their hands-on customer service, which they claim as a huge differentiator. The company also claims Dodge shared what it learned with its sales staff.

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#96:  Payment Bond Sureties and "Pay-if-Paid" Subcontracts

NH Construction Law

If the principal is a general contractor with a “pay-if-paid” clause in its subcontracts, must a subcontractor wait for the general contractor to be paid before it can collect on a payment bond? It is often said that a payment bond surety may assert all of the contractual defenses to payment enjoyed by its principal. 33, 614 S.E.2d

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Subcontractor’s Failure to Strictly Comply With Notice Provision Costs $200,000

Best Practices Construction Law

shall be deemed a conclusive waiver by the Contractor of any and all claims for damages for delay arising from such condition. ” The appellate court also found that actual knowledge of the delays and claims did not excuse the subcontractor from complying with the the notice requirements of the contract. .”

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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. The prime contractor subsequently terminated the subcontract for default and moved against the sub’s performance bond. The sub’s surety said, in effect, “This is not the subcontract we agreed to bond.”

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Does ‘Plain Language’ Terminology Enhance the Enforceability of Contract Clauses?

Construction Dive

A payment clause in a subcontract stated that payment by the project owner to the prime contractor was a “condition precedent” to the contractor’s obligation to pay the subcontractor. Subcontract payment clauses containing this term have generally been enforced against subcontractors.