OWNER HAD HOLES IN FLOOR, AND IN ITS CGL INSURANCE PROGRAM
A construction project owner is not covered by the insurance policy it purchased for a claim arising when the structural engineer (an independent contractor to the architect) fell through the floor at the project site according to a recent Massachusetts Appeals Court decision. The case is Cable Mills LLC v Coakley Pierpan Dolan and Collins… Read More »OWNER HAD HOLES IN FLOOR, AND IN ITS CGL INSURANCE PROGRAM
Negative Ratings Doom Contractor’s Eligibility for State Construction Work
Unfavorable feedback from past projects gave plenty of reason for the State to knock a contractor off the list of those eligible to do State construction work. Negative reviews are hard to shake, especially plausible ones. In a recent Massachusetts case, Mello Construction Inc. v Division of Capital Asset Management 84 Mass App Ct 625… Read More »Negative Ratings Doom Contractor’s Eligibility for State Construction Work
Need for Owner’s Oversight of BIM Tool Use Increases As More Adopt New Tools
Existing Conditions Reality Capture via Laser Point Clouds - Another Interface for BIM Few lawyers attended the 10/2/14 BIM Perspectives seminar I went to but lots of A/E/C professionals were there. The event was sponsored by a Microsol a company that sells Autodesk services to the A/E/C community. The new tools were impressive. Laser Scanning… Read More »Need for Owner’s Oversight of BIM Tool Use Increases As More Adopt New Tools
Comprehensive standards for elements of Building Information Modeling were recently updated and published at http://www.nationalbimstandard.org/. They propose a plan for everyone to agree on transmitting, preserving and updating information and a dictionary of nouns and adjectives for building elements. Even as participants unify on standards for terminology and BIM uses, a problem remains with contracts… Read More »National BIM Standards
Massachusetts MBTA ran into problems managing construction projects under the terms of the deals it signed. Why do government owners have problems with contracting styles common to private work? Contractors All Thrown off After Study The MBTA found that after years of planning for the Green Line extension project that the construction costs were way… Read More »MBTA Struggles with its Own Building Contracts
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