While on vacation, I will not provide my typical commentary today but will resume my posting on Construction Advisor Today next week. Meanwhile, I would like to share a report highlighting recent WPL Publishing webinars, presented by experts in the field of design and construction contracts, scheduling and weather planning.
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Lien clauses in construction contracts can limit a company's rights and place a project in jeopardy before it even begins. The webinar is structured to help companies avoid these problems and protect their rights.
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When it comes to planning for predictable as well as unpredictable weather contingencies, construction contractors and project owners need to know how to beat Mother Nature at her own game, or at least work around her. Knowing how to schedule these factors in relationship to the critical path can be the difference between receiving a compensable delay versus a non-compensable time extension.
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A cumulative D grade -- that’s the score the nation earned in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) annual Report Card for the Nation’s Infrastructure. With a projected $2.2 trillion worth of work needed over the next five years to bring the nation’s structural backbone up to passable levels, it’s no surprise that infrastructure was a key topic at McGraw Hill’s recent Construction Business Forum in Arlington, Va.
This third annual conference, “Embracing Change: The Impact of the New Administration on Construction,” offered a candid venue for project owners, contractors and association leaders to discuss the economic state of the construction industry, as well as the implications the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, or ARRA, will have on the industry. Since President Obama signed the bill into law
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WASHINGTON, May 14 /PRWeb/ -- Today, WPL Publishing Co. (www.wpl.net) welcomes the launch of its new Beta Site Construction Advisor Today (www.constructionadvisortoday.com), a complimentary online news source that will share commentary and provide news and insight as it relates to legal construction, green building, project controls, building information modeling (BIM), scheduling and more.
“By leveraging the editorial excellence of Construction Claims Advisor, we believe Construction Advisor Today will become an important information service to organizations making increasingly larger bets – especially with the economic stimulus flow and fluctuations in the stock market,” said Paul Levin, President of WPL Publishing.
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