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Typical coverage includes analyses and updates on relevant topics directly affecting your day-to -day construction business, including: controlling costs; remaining in compliance with regulatory (including tax and accounting) changes; reviewing and addressing insurance and risk- management issues; handling contract and legal issues (including liens and enforcement actions); addressing OSHA-related safety and inspection practices; preparing for BIM and other developing technologies; and, handling immigration and other labor-related issues.
CBMR covers all the top industry association events, including AGC, IRMI, CFMA and Vendome Group-sponsored conferences, and reports on the top, hot-button issues and challenges that contractors, subcontractors and their consultants face on a day-to-day basis. Newsletter content is synthesized and presented in an easy-to-use, easy-to-digest format.
Design Build projects may offer you substantial new work. If you have not yet ventured into Design Build projects and remain primarily involved in the standard Design-Bid-Build project delivery method, then the time to start thinking about Design Build is now. If you are already doing some Design Build projects, consider the possibility of expanding your horizons.
The International Risk Management Institute (IRMI) held its 28th annual conference in Las Vegas this past October. They held a general session to address from the construction and insurance industry’s perspective a variety of issues including the credit market meltdown, functioning in a down economy, risk transfer, wrap-up insurance, and lessons learned from AIG. The panelists represented the interests of large private owners, large general contractors, subcontractors, insurance brokers, and insurance companies. The session was very informative and quite lively.
Immigration problems continue to vex and plague the construction industry. The lack of an overall, comprehensive solution by the federal government has resulted in a hodgepodge of different state laws, some rather extreme and others more tolerant. Some of the laws may even be invalid. It is, of course, too early to determine whether or not the new administration will make headway toward an acceptable and effective national plan.
Peter Furst presented the seminar titled “Best Practices for Eliminating Crane Losses” at the International Risk Management’s 28th Construction Risk Conference.” Furst is a registered architect, certified safety professional, and is currently technical director of contracting for Liberty Mutual Group. (peter.furst@libertymutual.com).
Comedians Moe Howard of the Three Stooges and Jerry Lewis seem pretty unlikely people to have on a list of most admired. Granted, Moe was part of perhaps one of the best comedy teams (Curly was the funniest, hands down) and Jerry Lewis is no slouch (you can’t be if you are the number one comedian in France, right?) But most admired?
Associated General Contractors Building Contractors Conference, La Quinta, Calif.; Jan. 7-10, 2009. Contact: 703-548-3118; meetings@agc.org.
National Association of Surety and Bond Producer’s Surety School Level I, Houston. Jan. 25-29, 2009. Contact: 202-686-3700; www.nasbp.org.
Construction Safety Council 19th Annual Construction Safety & Health Conference & Expo, Rosemont, Ill., Feb. 15-19, 2009. Contact: 708-544-2082; www.buildingsafe.org. …
U.S. Green Building Standard Delayed
The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers Inc.’s committee developing the nation’s first green-building standard is seeking to involve additional members, according to the Engineering-News Record (ENR).
The addition of new members is designed to include "all the materially affected parties." The inclusion of additional members is expected to prevent a challenge to the adoption by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) of the new standard entitled "Standards…
Immigration: I-9s and E-Verify Strategies Design Build: Preparing the Successful Proposal Interview With a Safety Instructor What Hot and New From the AGC Conference?…
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