Navigating the Competitive Sealed Proposal Alternative Delivery Method
This article discusses ideas for effectively responding to a competitive sealed proposal. Download the full article.
Labor Shortages: Contractor Challenges and Industry Response
This article will address challenges contractors face, explain how those challenges can lead to contractual risk for the contractor, and provide practical tips to avoid those risks. It will also highlight ways the industry is responding to alleviate this labor shortage in the long term. Download the full article. [...]
Best Practices for Ensuring Subcontractor Compliance with Insurance Requirements
This article discusses best practices to ensure downstream subcontractor compliance with specified insurance requirements in an effort to control, mitigate, and transfer risk. Download the full article.
Bidding and Pricing Concerns with Select Alternative Delivery Methods
Pricing in contractor selection is an issue that draws debate frequently in the industry because alternative delivery methods differ so greatly from traditional methods. Download the full article.
Building a Design-Build Team
Alternative delivery methods such as design-build continue to gain momentum across Texas. Typical design-build contracts address the risks and responsibilities as to the owner, but those agreements do not attend to the issues that exist between design-build teams. Download the full article.
Contractor Liability for Design: Really?
This column will discuss contractor liability for design in detail to provide contractors an understanding of the issue and provide tools and tips to address this concern. Download the full article.
86th Legislative Session Primer and Preview
This article provides an overview of key dates for the 86th regular session, potential measures that will directly impact the construction industry, and issues that may dominate the already limited timetable for the 2019 session. Download the full article.
Preservation of Claims and Change Orders
This article takes a deeper look into the use of change order requests as a means of protecting your right to payment. We'll also discuss how a contractor can preserve a claim using a change order request when the contract terms are unfavorable to such action. Download the full article. [...]
Protecting Your Right to Payment
This article contains tips and tricks to help protect a contractor's right to payment while maintaining a professional and working relation with the owner. Download the full article.
Local Projects and Governmental Immunity: When is a City Protected from Suit?
This article examines a court's determination that a city can be sued if the city has acted in a proprietary manner as compared to a governmental manner. Download the full article.