Critical Cloud Security & Ransomware Defense Tips for Contractors
Viewpoint Construction Technology
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Bryce Austin’s construction cloud security and ransomware defense tips for help developing a plan to stave off cyber threats.
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Viewpoint Construction Technology
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Bryce Austin’s construction cloud security and ransomware defense tips for help developing a plan to stave off cyber threats.
Contractor Bookkeeping
JULY 26, 2024
The recent cyber outage is a stark reminder of digital systems' vulnerability and potential impact on businesses, including those in the construction industry. This incident offers several critical lessons for construction bookkeeping.
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Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Construction cost knowledge management is a component of integrated LEAN construction planning, procurement, and project delivery. Most real property owners have not yet recognized the importance of construction cost knowledge management and thus have not developed the capabilities needed to support it.
Construction Dive
APRIL 24, 2024
The embattled aerospace and defense contractor tapped the pair for an assembly building and hangar in St.
Best Practices Construction Law
JUNE 21, 2022
Last month, the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals held that a public contractor could not recover $100k in construction costs incurred following the government’s decision to close down a base in Tennessee due to COVID-19. The contractor also sought 59 days of time extension for the period the project was inaccessible.
Job Order Contracting
JUNE 21, 2023
4 SUPERIOR TECHNOLOGY – We exclusively provide enterprise collaborative software to take full advantage of our construction cost data. Sustainable Facilities Management [contact-form] The post Benefits of Local Market Cost Data to Create Estimates – 4BT appeared first on 4BT.
Levelset
AUGUST 30, 2024
These acts represent a substantial shift in how payment bond defenses are handled for sureties under both the Public Works Act and the Private Works Act. As these new laws come into effect, they introduce crucial updates that alter the landscape for suppliers working on bonded construction projects in Louisiana. 758 Sponsor: Sen.
Construction Dive
MARCH 20, 2023
About 80% of work from this contract will be performed in Guam, per the Department of Defense, with the remainder in other areas of the Pacific and Indian oceans.
Job Order Contracting
JUNE 21, 2023
JOC Program FAILURE POINTS Eliminating JOC Program FAILURE POINTS is key to maximizing benefits for both owners and awarded JOC contractors. Note: National average cost data, location factoring, or economic factoring do not provide defensible representations of project costs.)
Federal Construction Contracting Blog
APRIL 21, 2022
Unfortunately, the construction industry could not employ the remote workplace, and projects continued to require hands-on personnel who could not socially distance as a practical matter and were at greater risk for contracting COVID. As a result, productivity suffered and the country saw shortages of construction workers.
Viewpoint Construction Technology
OCTOBER 16, 2018
You have no shortage of ways to consume media these days, but we’ve found podcasts can be a great way to learn something new, hear from interesting people or keep up with the latest construction news while you’re commuting to work, exercising or cooking dinner. Get tips, insights and stories in these construction podcasts.
Federal Construction Contracting Blog
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Notable about this case is the contractor’s invocation of a July 2, 2020 Department of Defense (DoD) memorandum concerning the financial consequences on contractors with firm-fixed-price contracts lacking an economic price adjustment clause during “historic and unprecedented challenges” in the wake of the pandemic’s onset.
Green Building Law Update
APRIL 2, 2012
Dorothy Robyn, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. Instead, the Department of Defense is going to simultaneously require compliance with its green building code and with LEED certification. I assumed that this statement meant LEED certification was "in the past" and the new construction code would be used in the future.
Construction Dive
MARCH 21, 2019
The Government Accountability Office said that OSHA violations should be tied to a company identification number so that defense contractors can weigh safety records before awarding projects.
Job Order Contracting
APRIL 30, 2022
The characteristics of strategic collaboration and efficient construction project delivery are discussed below. Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery. Shorter construction schedules than planned. Partnering: a team building approach to quality construction. Abudayyeh, O.
Cassell Construction Estimating
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Focus: Estimating & budgeting for Department of Defense projects, facilities, manufacturing, and public utilities. contractors, government agencies, owners Quick evaluation: Easy to use right out of the box for estimating & budgeting. Optimum company (type): > 50 million dollar D.O.D. More popular with D.O.D.,
Construction Dive
JUNE 25, 2019
Government Accountability Office found a number of safety infractions on Department of Defense jobs.
Construction Business Owner
JULY 19, 2016
General contractors, prime or a higher-tier subcontractors working on a PW project are at risk. Many projects assisted with public funds or programs are subject to a myriad of federal, state and local laws and regulations among them, prevailing wage (PW) and reporting requirements.
NH Construction Law
OCTOBER 22, 2023
It happens this way: A contractor or subcontractor borrows money from a lender, and as security for the loan it gives the lender an assignment of or lien on its receivables and contract rights. Payment should be in the full amount currently owed to the contractor, regardless of how much is still owed on the contractor’s loan.
ENR Construction
JUNE 8, 2022
A US Defense Dept. guidance memo gives instructions on how contract cost adjustment clauses should be written in the future.
Construction Dive
MAY 20, 2019
Some general contractors are providing a more effective layer of protection. Traditional hard hats account for falling objects, not falling workers.
NH Construction Law
JUNE 30, 2020
A few years back I blogged (#24) on the Spearin doctrine, which holds that adherence to government-imposed design specifications absolves the contractor from contract liability to the government when the finished product fails to perform as intended. But what about suing the contractor who implemented the faulty design? In Yearsley v.
Job Order Contracting
JULY 10, 2017
LEAN Construction for Facilities Renovation, Repair, Minor New Construction. LEAN Construction for Facilities Renovation, Repair, Minor New Construction can delivery 90%+ of construction projects on-time, on-budget, and to the satisfaction of all parties involved. Reduced overhead for both owner and contractor.
Construction Dive
APRIL 13, 2018
A circuit court upheld OSHA's decision to issue a willful violation and impose a $49,000 fine against a contractor in relation to a worker's fatal fall.
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 21, 2018
LEAN OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting has a number of distinct advantages for repetitive repair, renovation, minor new construction and maintenance projects. Awarded JOC contractors also provide all requisite preconstruction services. Both the owner and the JOC contractor benefit from these efficiencies.
BD+C
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
The Department of Defense has released the findings of an independent report on energy efficiency and sustainability standards used by the Pentagon for military construction. The report strongly affirmed the value of LEED-certified high performing buildings to America’s military and U.S. read more.
Best Practices Construction Law
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Delay claims on a construction can be confusing, especially when you think about the delay to the work being performed and the disruption to other activities. Triple B Services, LLP , decided on May 26, 2016, the Court of Appeals of Texas reviewed a contractor’s claim for damages on a road expansion project. The Contract.
NH Construction Law
MAY 20, 2023
A couple of years ago I blogged ( #101 ) on “pay-if-paid” clauses, which make a general contractor’s receipt of payment from the owner a prerequisite – a “condition precedent,” in legal terms – to its obligation to pay subcontractors. Quinn Construction, Inc. JBC Merger Sub LLC v. 145, 286 A.3d
Federal Construction Contracting Blog
JUNE 7, 2022
Oftentimes, contractors find it difficult to differentiate between the government’s acts taken in its sovereign capacity as opposed to those taken in its contractual capacity. Under the order’s parameters, the contractor did not qualify as urgent personnel and, thus, it was prevented from entering the base.
ENR Construction
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
based contractor Gilbane Federal completed a sophisticated, self-sustaining 414,000-sq-ft headquarters building for the Afghanistan Ministry of Defense, in Kabul. In May 2015, U.S.-based
Job Order Contracting
MAY 19, 2017
Community-based Construction Cost Estimating … The OpenCost TM Approach. Take advantage of several critical improvements relative to the collection, validation, use, and maintenance of detailed line item unit price cost data to improve construction outcomes. The estimator (owner/contractor/A&E, etc.)
Best Practices Construction Law
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Contractors, LLC v. United States , the contractor who had been awarded a fixed price, time sensitive contractor to repair pavement at an Air Force base filed suit against the Department of Defense (“Agency”), alleging it had been wrongfully terminated for default. ” In Alutiiq Manf.
Job Order Contracting
JULY 9, 2018
Turn your JOC Program and JOC estimating into a truly efficient construction procurement and construction management asset.Turn your JOC Program and JOC estimating into a truly efficient construction procurement and construction management asset. Create defensible, fine-tuned estimates (owners and contractors).
Federal Construction Contracting Blog
JANUARY 16, 2024
Department of Defense (DoD) published the much anticipated proposed rule for the revamped Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 For example, contractors subject to 252.204–7012 are already required to safeguard covered defense information in accordance with NIST SP 800-171. On December 26, 2023, the U.S.
Best Practices Construction Law
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
As you may be aware, one of the greatest risks on a construction project involves the payment process. Just like my kids expect to be paid for the lemonade they sell, contractors and subcontractors expect to be paid on a timely basis once the work has been performed. Turner Construction Company , the U.S.
Autodesk Construction Cloud
APRIL 24, 2023
While incredibly rewarding, the construction industry is a challenging sector to work in for cost-focused business and project executives. Bank failures, rising interest rates, high material prices, and labor crunches are all making it more challenging for construction companies to protect, let alone, improve their margins.
Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Or… Job Order Contracting is a LEAN procurement and project delivery method for facilities repair, renovation, and minor new construction. It can deliver major benefits, but only if fundamental LEAN processes are adhered to and the real property owner actively participates and provides leadership. The post appeared first on 4BT.
ENR Construction
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
This project includes four of the five buildings planned for a campus that serves a defense contractor and its team working on the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) Program at Hill Air Force Base in northern Utah.
Job Order Contracting
FEBRUARY 17, 2024
Publicly available social media or communications platforms governed under Federal agency social media policies, in which Federal employees or support contractors may or may not enter Federal information. #3. Publicly available services that provide commercially available information.”
Best Practices Construction Law
MARCH 10, 2020
In the world of construction contracts, preservation of claims made in hindsight does not always get you what you want. As to the preservation of the contractor’s claim, the ASBCA held that the contractor submitted its claim for delay damages after receipt of final payment. In Appeal of Matcon Diamond, Inc. 59637 (Feb.
Job Order Contracting
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
The LEAN Integrated Construction Project Delivery Method. . It did so in response to a growing need for increasing and unsupportable demands for construction throughout Europe. Department of Defense: West Point Academy in 1985, and United States Air Force bases in 1986. The History of Job Order Contracting.
ENR Construction
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Officials and contractors in British Columbia and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Washington state push to reopen, repair and add resilience to battered highways and flood defenses after a month of repeat storms.
Autodesk Construction Cloud
JUNE 26, 2023
The construction industry has embarked on a massive and long journey toward digital transformation. Furthermore, the pressure put on the environment is greater than ever, and the damages done to the planet are indisputable. More and more large construction firms are rethinking their business entirely.
Pro Builder
OCTOBER 4, 2021
As predominantly small- and medium-size companies, home builders and trade contractors are especially vulnerable to cybersecurity issues, so it's important for them to understand the risks and take action to protect their companies. PRO BUILDER: What are some common cyberattacks hackers use on construction companies? Mike Beirne.
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