Owen Newman | Duane Morris Five Construction Risks that Rarely Make it onto the Agenda Every construction GC has three piles on their desk. A speaker at an ethics CLE early in my legal career named them. The small one up front: the work they love. The medium one in the corner: the work they… Continue reading The Invisible Pile – Five Construction Risks that Rarely Make it onto the Agenda
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He Chose…Poorly: How Bad DSC Clauses Lead to Project Doom in the Last Crusade of Construction Risk
Curtis W. Martin and Cornelius Banta, Jr. | ConsensusDocs “We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and X never, ever marks the spot.” That’s the advice that Indiana Jones offered in the Last Crusade film. But what’s beneath the surface isn’t just important to adventure archaeologists. It has real-world application to our industry, where success depends on… Continue reading He Chose…Poorly: How Bad DSC Clauses Lead to Project Doom in the Last Crusade of Construction Risk
2023’s Bank Failures: What Contractors, Material Suppliers and Equipment Lessors Can Do to Protect Themselves
Garret Murai | California Construction Law Blog It has been a tumultuous year for the banking industry. Since the beginning of this year the industry has seen the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, the shotgun marriage between failing Credit Suisse and USB, and, most recently, the collapse of First Republic Bank this… Continue reading 2023’s Bank Failures: What Contractors, Material Suppliers and Equipment Lessors Can Do to Protect Themselves
Understanding Infrastructure Disputes: Construction Risks
Pascale Leymin and Seamus O’Doherty | Berkeley Research Group In the second series of BRG’s Understanding Infrastructure Disputes papers, our damages, construction, and energy and resources experts identify risks that can arise during projects from financing through construction to operations, how those risks can best be managed and their potential impact on disputes down the… Continue reading Understanding Infrastructure Disputes: Construction Risks
Unfair Risk Allocation on Design-Build Projects
Brian Perlberg | ConsensusDocs The AGC annual convention included a session entitled “Who’s on the Hook for Design Defects in Design-Build Projects.” Fox Rothschild’s Dirk Haire, Les Synder of Infrastructure Construction Brightline West, and David Hecker of Kiewit presented. Attendees crowded into a standing-only room because more and more builders are facing design liability, especially design-builders on… Continue reading Unfair Risk Allocation on Design-Build Projects