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Porter Hedges LLP

How do you solve a problem like a tariff? Understanding and addressing tariff risks in construction contracts.

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Since February 2025, numerous tariffs affecting the construction industry have been announced, imposed, and paused. These tariffs present a problem for parties drafting and negotiating construction contracts—namely how to...more

Stoel Rives LLP

A Primer For Decoding Legal Jargon In Construction Contracts

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Construction is an industry with a long history that stretches back thousands of years. Over time, the industry developed its own specialized language. Indeed, the “Oxford Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Navigating US-Canada Tariff Tensions: Managing Risk in Construction Contracts | Bennett Jones

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Driven by growing housing needs, clean energy policies and a high volume of telecommunications transactions, demand for Canadian infrastructure projects have been rising. However, recently announced US tariffs on Canadian...more

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC

[Webinar] How to Protect your Rights on a USACE Dredging Project - March 19th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

Join Cohen Seglias Government Contracting attorneys Michael Payne, Casey McKinnon and Steve Tobin for an in-depth discussion on how to protect your rights on dredging projects with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)....more

Stoel Rives LLP

Subcontracts: Tips For General Contractors And Subcontractors

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Drafting and negotiating subcontracts can be tricky for both general contractors and subcontractors. General contractors are caught in between owners and subcontractors as the ones that will be held responsible for the work...more

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Understanding the Basics of a Construction Contract

Construction contracts are essential in the construction industry, governing the relationships and responsibilities of all parties involved in a project. Whether you’re a contractor, subcontractor, or property owner,...more

Miller Nash LLP

Contract Drafting 101: Implied Warranties and Design Delegation

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Important elements of a strong construction contract include implied warranties and design delegation. It is necessary to pay close attention to these concepts to protect against future disputes. When a contractor is...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The Basics of Contract Interpretation: A Primer for Non-Lawyers in the Construction Industry

Every first year law student in the U.S. takes a course on the Law of Contracts. It’s a rite of passage where lawyers-to-be learn all about things like consideration and legally-enforceable promises. And as lawyers, we also...more

BCLP

NEC4 Professional Service Contract - an introduction and overview

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Lucy Hawley takes a look at the NEC Professional Service Contract, considering the features of the form and what projects are particularly well suited to it.  ...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 7th Annual Conference on Managing Risk in Construction Contracts & Projects – Eastern Canada Edition - February 23rd -...

Hosted by CI, the 7th Annual Conference on Managing Risk in Construction Contracts & Projects – Eastern Canada Edition returns to Toronto for another exciting year with curated programming that addresses the most critical...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] Managing Risk in Construction Contracts & Projects – Eastern Canada Edition - February 23rd - 24th, Toronto, ON, Canada

Reconnect with your peers and key stakeholders from construction companies, public sector, and infrastructure! The Canadian Institute’s 7th Annual Conference on Managing Risk in Construction Contracts & Projects – Eastern...more

K&L Gates LLP

Discombobulated Contractual Communications? Let Us Be Clear!

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Introduction - Imagine you are on a construction site somewhere in the Middle East. On-site you will likely hear the following phrases and mutations thereof: “Are you going to answer me?” and “Why are you telling me this...more

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JAMS Global Construction Solutions, Fall 2021 - The Latest News in Construction ADR from the World’s Leading Neutrals

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Value Engineering Construction Arbitration - Designing a Better Process and Techniques Arbitrators Can Use to Help Parties Reach a Faster, More Cost-Effective Resolution - The rapid growth of construction arbitration...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Contract Drafting Tip: “LEED” Damages and the Waiver of Consequential Damages Clause

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Potential damages arising from the failure to achieve statutory or contractual requirements concerning Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) or other green building standards are far ranging and may include:...more

Gould + Ratner LLP

Constructing a Data Center: Understanding the Key Issues

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With society’s increased reliance on working remotely, vis a vis through “the cloud” and need for unfettered amounts of storage and processing power, data centers seem to be popping up almost everywhere you turn. In fact,...more

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Let the Sun Shine: Best Practices For Solar EPC Contracts

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For a variety of reasons, the solar industry has experienced, and will continue to experience, record growth. According to the Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood Mackenzie, a global energy and chemical research...more

BCLP

Global Water Associates: applying Hadley v Baxendale

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From time to time, those seminal cases we all studied during the early parts of our career pop up in practice. We’re all familiar with them: the snail in the bottle in Donoghue v Stevenson; the spurious sounding flu remedy in...more

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Western Australia Proposes Building and Construction Industry (Security of Payment) Bill 2020

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The Western Australian government has sought industry comment on a suite of significant proposed reforms to the WA security of payment regime ("SOP"). If passed, the Bill represents the most significant reform to the...more

Gould + Ratner LLP

Best Practices for Coping With Project Modifications, Suspension and Termination During the Age of COVID-19

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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, owners and developers find themselves facing the prospect of continued project disruptions. While almost every governmental shutdown order has allowed construction activities to continue as...more

King & Spalding

Tokyo Dispute Resolution & Crisis Management Newsletter – June 2020: Coronavirus & Construction Contracts - Causation, Force...

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Large construction projects, by their very nature, carry significant commercial and financial risk for the parties involved. Contributing to this overall risk is the reality that an act of nature or other circumstance beyond...more

A&O Shearman

Practical completion: Court of Appeal provides general guidance

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A clause stating that a reduction in room size by more than 3% would be “deemed material” related only to the materiality of the variation from the contract drawings, rather than the materiality of the resulting breach of...more

King & Spalding

Large-Scale Construction Projects: To Arbitrate, or not to Arbitrate – That is the Question

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Owners and contractors involved in large-scale energy and manufacturing projects face unique challenges in bringing projects to fruition. One challenge is negotiating and drafting a contract that places the parties in a fair...more

BCLP

Practically complete or completely impractical? Navigating the pitfalls of what constitutes practical completion

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Many a construction dispute turns on defects. A significant subset of those turn on whether the existence of defects prevents practical completion from taking place. Originally published on the Practical Law Construction...more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

Contractors: Are your contracts prepared for a Hurricane? A look into force majeure clauses following Hurricane Michael.

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Hurricane Michael made landfall on the Florida panhandle as the third strongest Atlantic hurricane on record to hit the United States. Hurricane Michael was the strongest hurricane, in terms of sustained winds, to hit the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Dealing with Difficult Parties on a Project - Modern Contractor Solutions

If you have been involved in the construction industry for any substantial amount of time, you have likely encountered an individual or an entity on a project who appears to be completely unreasonable or irrational. You may...more

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