Tara Rose | Hahn Loeser & Parks Would it surprise you to learn that one of the most important sections in your construction contract is the one your lawyer will probably spend the least amount of time on? In your lawyer’s defense, lawyers aren’t always privy to the nitty gritty details of a project’s scope… Continue reading Slippery Scope – Understanding Your Scope of Work
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Construction Contract’s Scope of Work Should be Written with Clarity
David Adelstein | Florida Construction Legal Updates The scope of work section in your construction contract should never be overlooked. In numerous instances, it is overlooked which leads to a dispute as to the precise nature of the scope of work. This dispute could be the result of an ambiguity in the scope of work section. Or… Continue reading Construction Contract’s Scope of Work Should be Written with Clarity
A Fire Destroying More Than Half of the Project is not a Cardinal Change Where the Parties Entered Into a Separate Agreement to Cover the Fire Remediation Work
Kristopher Berr | Constructlaw | November 29, 2018 IES Commercial, Inc. v. Manhattan Torcon, A Joint Venture, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 164973 (D. Md. Sept. 26, 2018) In 2009, the Army Corps of Engineers hired Manhattan Torcon Joint Venture (“MT”) as general contractor to build a biological research facility at Fort Detrick, Maryland. MT subcontracted… Continue reading A Fire Destroying More Than Half of the Project is not a Cardinal Change Where the Parties Entered Into a Separate Agreement to Cover the Fire Remediation Work
Constructive Changes – A Primer
Jonathan R. Mayo | Smith Currie | September 10, 2018 A “constructive change” occurs when an owner action or omission not formally acknowledged by the owner to be a change in the contact’s scope of work forces the contractor to perform additional work. Constructive changes are not formal change orders, but informal changes that could… Continue reading Constructive Changes – A Primer
Subcontractor Not Entitled to Payment after it Refused to Perform Disputed Work
Jasmine K. Gardner | Bradley Arant Boult Cummings | January 25, 2016 In yet another case from Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Appeals Court in Acme Abatement Contractor, Inc. v. S&R Corp. found that a general contractor was justified in not paying its subcontractor, even after the subcontractor had performed the majority of its work, because of… Continue reading Subcontractor Not Entitled to Payment after it Refused to Perform Disputed Work