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Cranfill Sumner LLP

Understanding North Carolina Senate Bill 166: What Insurance Professionals Specializing in Construction and Related Claims Need to...

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North Carolina Senate Bill 166 (Session Law 2024-49), the majority of which became effective on September 11, 2024, amended various N.C. state building codes, regulations for contractors and design professionals, and...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

COVID-19 in the Workspace: Is Enough Enuf?

You’ve been to the webinars about COVID-19. You’ve read the trade publication tips. You’ve implemented measures to protect your workers. You’re ahead of the game, right? Well, you’re certainly ahead of the sheriff who...more

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NYC DOB To Resume COVID Fines And Penalties

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The New York City Department of Buildings announced that starting Wednesday, July 8, 2020, it would resume issuing violations and penalties of $5,000.00 per violation with the potential for a Stop Work Order for sites which...more

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Face Masks In The Construction Industry

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The use of cloth face coverings (masks) in the construction workplace is one of the preventive measure in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) guidance specific to the construction industry on how to...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

DC Real Estate and Construction Committee Issues Recommendations as DC Prepares for Phased Reopening

The District of Columbia has taken a community-driven, “one size does not fit all” approach to establishing recommendations for reopening. DC’s Real Estate and Construction Committee issued comprehensive recommendations...more

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City Of Chicago Unveils Reopening Guidelines, PPE Exchange Ahead Of Transition To Phase 3

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot has released the City of Chicago’s industry guidelines for reopening as the City prepares to transition to Phase 3 of the “Be Safe Chicago” plan. Under the City’s plan, which established more strict...more

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ReOpen DC To Begin Phase 1

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On Wednesday, May 27, 2020, Mayor Muriel Bowser issued Order 2020-067 initiating DC’s phased reopening. ReOpen DC will begin Phase 1 on Friday May 29, 2020, at 12:01 a.m. Phase 1 was appropriate now that community spread has...more

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New Jersey Eases Restrictions On Construction, Non-Essential Retail

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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed Executive Order (EO) 142 to permit non-essential construction projects to resume and non-essential retail businesses to reopen for curbside pickup. Effective May 18, 2020,...more

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New York State Issues Guidance for Re-Opening of Businesses

New York State has issued detailed guidance on Governor Cuomo’s “New York Forward” Plan, under which the State will re-open in four phases on a regional basis. The guidance includes additional information regarding: (1) when...more

Fisher Phillips

Bay Area Counties Allow Certain Businesses And Construction Projects To Reopen While Extending Shelter-In-Place Order Through May...

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Six Bay Area counties and the city of Berkeley officially announced an extension of the regional COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Orders through May 31, 2020. The new Orders ease operating restrictions, allowing construction...more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

50 Shades of Construction – What Is and Isn’t “Essential” Construction Might Be A Little More Gray Than You Thought.

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When Florida’s governor issued his stay at home order, it contained a carve out designating construction as an essential service. Since the order’s debut, many have embraced the construction carve out as allowing any and all...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

New Jersey: Latest COVID-19 Executive Order Adds Stringent Protocols on Essential Businesses and Halts Most Non-Essential...

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Seyfarth Synopsis:  On April 8, 2020, Governor Murphy signed Executive Order 122, which requires that all essential retail, manufacturing and warehousing businesses and businesses engaged in essential construction projects...more

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Province Releases Updated List of “Essential” Workplaces, Directing Additional Closures and Restrictions During COVID-19 State of...

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On April 3, 2020, the Government of Ontario announced that it would be ordering more workplaces to close or restrict their businesses as part of the extraordinary steps to limit the spread of COVID-19 in order to protect its...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Most Commercial Construction Is No Longer "Essential" And Must Shut Down

On March 31, 2020, Gov. Baker revised the list of “essential” services in Massachusetts. The revised list (“Exhibit A”) can be found at: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-essential-services. The criteria for...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

New York State Halts Construction

On March 18, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed Executive Order 202.6 limiting non-essential business. Today, New York State expanded its guidance on Executive Order 202.6 to include construction as a non-essential...more

Stoel Rives LLP

COVID-19 Update: Washington Governor Issues Construction Guidance Memorandum

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On March 25, 2020, Washington Governor Jay Inslee issued a memorandum that provided members of the construction industry with additional guidance regarding the Stay Home, Stay Healthy Proclamation (20-25) issued on March 23,...more

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

The Effect Of The COVID-19 Coronavirus On Construction

The COVID-19 coronavirus is impacting every aspect of the economy, and construction will not be exempt. Materials and deliveries may be slowed, crews quarantined and unavailable, and projects delayed. We view COVID-19 as an...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

COVID-19: FIDIC and Claims for Additional Time & Money in International Construction Projects

The increasing and dynamic impact of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is tangible. For example, on January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a “public health emergency of international concern” and in the...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

AB 203: How Global Climate Change and Valley Fever Impact Workers’ Compensation

According to a recent University of California Irvine study, scientists predict that with increasing temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns associated with client change, the incidence of human coccidioidomycosis...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

California Supreme Court Clarifies Standard of Review for EIRs and Requirements for Air Quality Impact Analyses

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CEQA Case Report: Understanding the Judicial Landscape for Development - In a published opinion issued December 24, 2018, Sierra Club v. County of Fresno, Case No. S219783, the California Supreme Court determined that an...more

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Construction Industry And Other Outdoor Working Employees Are Susceptible To Vector-Borne Pathogens From Ticks And Mosquitoes

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recent report indicates that vector-borne diseases are a rising causes of illness for outdoor workers in the United States. ...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: U.S. EPA Issues Policy Intended to Ease Pre-Construction Permitting Requirements for New and Modified Industrial and...

In what is now clear to be a series of policy changes to ease air permitting requirements for industrial and manufacturing facilities, U.S. EPA has issued its second memorandum entitled “Project Emissions Accounting under the...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Further Opportunity to Extend Development Orders and Building Permits

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On August 4, 2017, Governor Scott extended the previously declared State of Emergency issued for the Zika Virus for the seventh time, affording holders of permits and development orders an expanded opportunity to toll the...more

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Oportunidad adicional para extender órdenes de desarrollo y permisos de construcción

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El gobernador Scott extendió recientemente el estado de emergencia declarado en respuesta al virus del Zika, por lo que quienes cuenten con permisos u órdenes de desarrollo urbano tendrán una oportunidad aún mayor de...more

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Oportunidad de extender permisos y órdenes de desarrollo urbano durante casi 16 meses

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Quienes cuenten con permisos u órdenes de desarrollo urbano tienen la oportunidad de suspender el período restante para ejercer derechos en virtud del permiso u orden durante casi 16 meses. La Sección 252.363 de los Estatutos...more

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