Payment provisions sit at the heart of every construction contract. The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act ...

Who doesn’t want to have a detailed and coherent construction agreement in place on every job? It minimizes confusion, makes clear everyone’s respective responsibilities and should reduce disputes.

It is critical for contractors to understand the insurance requirements in construction contracts, as these projects carry very high levels of liability and risk. Construction involves moving ...

Incorporating tariff-specific escalation and change-in-law clauses into contracts helps protect parties from unforeseen cost increases. Legal provisions like force majeure should be tailored to ...

Owners and developers with construction projects underway are understandably very concerned about the impact of COVID-19 on the viability of their projects. Even those construction projects permitted ...

When entering into a construction contract, it is important to understand and account for the differences between direct damages and consequential damages, as these differences can determine what ...

Most construction contracts fail to address AI use. Traditional forms—AIA, ConsensusDocs, FIDIC—were not written for a world where autonomous systems influence design or execution. Without updated ...

The summer of 2021 was a time of high anxiety when many contractors faced surging steel prices and lacked the protection of contract material price escalation clauses. Remember 2019? That’s when ...

Locating, bidding on and fulfilling a government construction contract is significantly different from the process in private sector construction jobs. Small construction businesses can count on heavy ...