Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2018
Transportation Secretary Tom Smith said Monday that runaway inflation in highway construction costs has the department concerned as West Virginia embarks on the $2.8 billion “Roads to Prosperity” initiative. “Those are concerning numbers when you have things escalating that far,” Smith said of reports of an 8.8 percent inflation rate for construction costs. Those costs might have been reflected last …
Historically, a construction company owner’s main concern was to find the next job and keep the company’s backlog at an appropriate level. In today’s fast paced, competitive, and complex construction market, owners are challenged with a range of other issues. Read about them here >>>
Whether it’s a contract, an insurance policy or another provision governing a construction project, all terms are spelled out in black and white – or they should be. If not, the risk for claims and disputes usually rises, often dramatically. Construction contracts alone can make or break projects before shovels hit the dirt, depending on whether the terms and conditions …
A South Abington Twp. insurance agent will spend up to six years in prison and will have to make more than $192,000 in restitution for defrauding business clients. Timothy A. Hewitt, 42, was sentenced Tuesday in Lackawanna County Court by President Judge Michael J. Barrasse to a total of 19 to 72 months in state prison, followed by 12 years …
Recent construction surveys have expressed a cautiously optimistic look at the industry’s prospects for the next year or so, but there appears to be a growing consensus that the seemingly unfettered growth that the industry has enjoyed during the last several years will soon slow. For example, Engineering News-Record’s second-quarter “Construction Industry Confidence Survey” showed that, construction executives, while upbeat …
Two construction executives were charged with fraudulently obtaining public contracts worth millions of dollars by stealing the identities of two minority-owned businesses, and failing to pay more than $400,000 to more than 50 employees, the state attorney general’s office said today. One of the executives, Michael Martin, 47, of Latham, formerly owned Eastern Building & Restoration Inc. in Albany. Read …
It’s been said that as California goes, so goes the nation. If so, general contractors throughout the country may soon be taking on more responsibility for the unpaid wages of the workers on their construction projects than they might have expected. As of January 1, 2018, Assembly Bill 1701 makes general contractors liable for the unpaid wages of any employee …
Construction 1st Class CEO April Malloy discusses how she went from living in the back seat of her car to becoming the boss of her own construction company. “I was sleeping in my car and I would answer ads and I was working and pounding the hammer and just pounding the pavement and making it happen. I started reading plans …
The thought of seeing more crews working on Ulmerton Road is probably enough to give some commuters nightmares. It took more than five years for construction on the road to finish last year after the project suffered numerous setbacks, including the original contractor defaulting on its obligations and bailing on the job. Largo engineers say that contractor, Conalvias USA, likely …
At the tail-end of the 2018 legislative session, the Maryland General Assembly passed Senate Bill 853, making construction general contractors jointly and severally liable for the failure of their subcontractors to pay their employees in compliance with Maryland’s wage and hour laws. This new law will become effective October 1, 2018. California recently passed a similar measure, AB 1701, which …
