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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Prime Contractor Beware, No. 3: Tis The Season, but is your Retainage safe under the Tree?

Here’s the Scenario: Try explaining the concept of “retainage” to a businessperson unfamiliar with the construction industry at your next holiday party. Here’s the typical response as she spits out her eggnog: “Wait a minute:...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Prime Contractor Beware, No. 2: “Know Thy Owner”

Here’s the Scenario: After months of working with a new national developer (and providing hours of unreimbursed value engineering), you get the draft prime contract and see that the named “owner” will not be the hugely...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Proposed Greenhouse Gas Rules Create Significant Contractor Compliance Requirements

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The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) on Nov. 14, 2022, released a sweeping proposed regulation concerning greenhouse gas reporting requirements titled "Federal Acquisition Regulation: Disclosure of...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Past Performance Upgrade for Small Businesses Results in Additional Compliance Requirement for Large Contractors

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A newly published Small Business Administration Final Rule provides small businesses with two new ways to satisfy Past Performance requirements when competing for federal prime contracts. The Rule takes effect on August 22,...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts – Proposed Regulations Issued

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As we wrote back in November 2021, the Biden Administration issued Executive Order 14055 reinstating most of the concepts from the Obama Administration era nondisplacement Executive Order 13495....more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

President Biden Reinstates a Version of the Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts Executive Order

On November 18, 2021, President Biden issued an executive order reinstating a version of the Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts executive order that had previously been implemented by President Obama...more

Porter Hedges LLP

Top Five Construction Contract Modifications To Comply With Texas Law

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Texas law has certain peculiarities which must be followed when a project is located in Texas. To avoid surprises and unanticipated liability on construction projects, the parties should modify contracts consistent with...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Waivers of Subrogation Do Not Limit Third-Party Contribution Claims in Maryland

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In a case of first impression, Maryland’s intermediate appellate court recently held that a subrogation waiver in an owner’s prime contractor contract does not bar a subcontractor claim for contribution against the prime...more

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Prime Contractors Take Note of New California Law Imposing Liability for Subcontractors’ Employees’ Unpaid Wages

California is imposing greater responsibilities on prime contractors for nonpayment of wages and benefits by their subcontractors. On October 14, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 1701 (Thurmond), adding...more

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC

Contractor Payment Rights on Public Projects affected by PA Supreme Court Decision

Contractors doing work on publicly-owned projects in Pennsylvania may find it more difficult to recover statutory penalties and attorneys’ fees if the owner withholds funds in bad faith. Pennsylvania’s Procurement Code, which...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Unpaid Subcontractors Gain Protection: the Supreme Court of Canada Clarifies the Builders’ Liens Act

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An unpaid subcontractor has both a builder’s lien and a trust remedy, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) just determined in Stuart Olson Dominion Construction Ltd v Structal Heavy Steel, 2015 SCC 43. In a unanimous decision,...more

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Construction Law Alert: New Amendment to Washington's Contractor Registration Act

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Construction and Design Additionally, “contractor” was defined in the statute to include those who offer “to sell their property without occupying or using the structures, projects, developments, or improvements for more than...more

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Nevada Legislature Passes Reform on General Contractor Liability for Unpaid Subcontractor Labor Benefits

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The 2015 Nevada Legislature appears to have brought common sense reform to one of the state’s most controversial statutes – NRS 608.150 – which made “original contractors” liable to its subcontractor employees (or labor...more

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