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  • How to Insure Your Historic Home
  • Money Machine: How to Set Up a Collection System
  • For Remodelers, Good Contracts Must Have These Clauses
  • Want to Make Money? Stay in Control
  • Stay in Control: the Essentials of a Good Contract
  • Good Contracts Don’t Have Loopholes
  • Which Building Codes Trip Up Contractors the Most?
  • How to Keep Insurance Up to Date While Keeping Costs Low
  • Coded Language: How Codes Affect Off-Site Building
  • Contracts: Everyone Should Sign Up
  • The Saving Grace of ‘Force Majeure’
  • On Jobsites, Cell Phones Are Often Unsafe
  • Finding, Signing Up, and Keeping Good Subcontractors
  • Look ‘Em Up: Guide to Common Commercial Building Code Flubs
  • The End Game: How to Break a Contract
  • Why Contracts Matter: Money, Man!
  • How Valuable Are Preservation Easements?
  • Building a Case for Insurance Claims
  • Construction Sites with Multiple Employers Prime Spots for OSHA Citations
  • Safe for Workers? Red Flags About Green Building Techniques
  • Does Regulation Really Put the Brakes on Innovation?
  • More Than Ever, Contractors Are Succeeding at Succession Planning
  • Podcast: Hallmarks of Productive Leadership
  • Why Defining ‘Subcontractor’ Isn’t a Word Game
  • Worker’s Comp: New Risks for the Old Coverage
  • Sexual Harassment on the Jobsite: What Do Workers Say?
  • Discrimination and Harassment: Managing a Construction Business in the New Environment
  • The Legal Risks of Delegated Design
  • For Construction Workers, It’s an Unhealthy Situation
  • Construction Insurance: How to Stay Out of the Loser’s Circle
  • How to Prevent Sexual Harassment on the Job
  • Aussie-Some: World’s First Building Code for Modular Construction
  • Are Land Use Regulations Throttling the Economy?
  • Legal Eagles Get Trademark Protection
  • New Vision for Managing Labor on Construction Sites
  • Harder to Sue, Easier to Build?
  • Training Day: Online Simulations May Have a Future
  • Whither OSHA in the New Republican Age?
  • Training Can Keep Industry on Track
  • Tiny Houses Can Be Big Trouble
  • How Long Do Warranties Endure?
  • Alert: OSHA Clears Things Up!
  • OSHA Weighs In, Again, on Safety and Health Programs
  • The Last Word on Construction Contracts
  • Why Doesn’t the Sunshine State Like Solar?
  • Getting Paid: How to Collect Construction AR
  • The Confusing World of Roofing Warranties
  • Bay Area Battle: Small Iconic Houses Against Big New Ones
  • Truth Hurts: Top Five Causes of On-the-Job Injuries
  • The States of Solar: What’s the Policy in All 50 (and D.C.)?
  • Keeping PACE? Housing Groups Want FHA to Reconsider New Rules
  • New Homes Should Come with a Warranty
  • App-lied Knowledge: Calculate the Odds of a Project Getting Built
  • Prevailing Wages: Planning for That Call from the DOL
  • NAHB: Rules and Regs Account for Nearly Quarter of New Home’s Cost
  • Short-Term Rentals: Ins and Outs of a New Marketplace
  • Remodeling Contracts: Clear, Simple, but Complete
  • Fine State of Affairs: Get Ready to Pay More Penalties
  • Installing Windows: No Secret to Complying with Building Codes
  • How to Manage Ever-Increasing Premiums for Construction Insurance
  • The Rights Way: What Can You Do if Clients Won’t Pay?
  • Taking Over Another Company’s Project Can Be Hard to Do
  • Better Than a Lawyer? How About an Insurance Agent?
  • Employees or Indi Contractors: What the Feds Say
  • Insurance Policy: How to Firm Up Coverage and Keep Costs Low
  • New Rulings on How to Classify Workers
  • Insurance: Be Sure About It
  • How to Deconstruct Gender Bias
  • How to Order Generals to Pay More Quickly
  • Breaking Up Doesn’t Have to Be So Hard
  • Liening In: When and How to File
  • Untested Building Tech Can Pose Legal Hazards
  • How Tech Can Keep Contractors Out of Court
  • When–and When Not to–Lien In
  • Can Non-Competes Really Stop the Competitive Urge?
  • What to Know When Buying a House–but Not the Land
  • Make Sure They Sign Here, Please
  • Legally, the Inside Story About Design Is Always Different
  • How to Use Contingency Funds Efficiently
  • The Remodeling Customer Isn’t, or Shouldn’t, Always Be Right
  • Lawyerly Advice: Don’t Take Drones Casually
  • Putting Modular Deals Down on Paper
    Putting Modular Deals Down on Paper
  • Builders Who Take on Part of the Design Also Assume Some of the Risk
  • How to Save Bucks on Bonds
  • Water, Water Everywhere; Why Do We Keep Wading In?
  • For Competitive People, Non-Competes Are Non-Starters
  • Despite Storms, Some States Won’t Change Building Codes
  • Basic Insurance Builders Should Cover
  • Matter of Policy: Unusual but Useful Coverage for Contractors
  • Can You Afford Not to Comply with OSHA’s New Rule on Silica?
  • Fire and Fury: Wood-Based Apartments Are More Vulnerable
  • Coded Language: New App Makes Navigating Regs Much Easier
  • Remodelers: Should You Be a Franchise Player? Maybe, Maybe Not
  • Ins and Outs, Ups and Downs of Working on Public Projects
  • Off the Record: OSHA Pulls Back on Documenting Injuries
  • On Sites: Protecting Workers from Construction’s Real Dangers
  • Five Ways to Stop Construction Fraud
  • For Efficiency’s Sake: Energy Costs Beat Codes
  • Deisgners, Builders Vie for Owners’ Attention–and Pocketbook
  • LEEDing the Way: Construction Contracts Lag Behind
  • Safety First: Fine, Fine, Fine
  • Legal Ins and Outs of Design-Build
  • Yes, Words Can Sometimes Hurt You
  • Does Complying with Code Ensure Safe Materials?
  • Twists and Turns of Spiral Staircases
  • Construction Bidding: How to Deal with Contracts
  • Sue What? How to Stay Out of Legal Trouble
  • Disasters Beat Insufficient Building Codes Every Time
  • Will Mortgage Process Go Digital? Not So Fast
  • EPA to Composite Wood Makers: Toughen Up
  • Code Words: How One Fire Created Building Regs
  • Gaining Traction? CPSC Urged to Label Flooring
  • Ten Most Common Building Code Violations
  • Not All Sweetness and Light for Solar
  • How ‘General Conditions’ Can Derail a Construction Contract
  • Customer Just Won’t Pay? How to Be a Legal Eagle
  • Game of Drones: Rules and Regs Pros Need to Know
  • Dough What? What to Do if a Remodeling Client Won’t Pay
  • Going Up? Contractors Need to Put Price Escalations on Paper
  • Tips and Techniques for Transferring Ownership of Your Company
  • When Is ‘Paid in Full’ Not Really ‘Paid in Full’?
  • Valid Reasons to Invalidate a Contract
    Valid Reasons to Invalidate a Contract
  • When You Take Over a Project, Know What You’re Taking On
  • When Breaking a Deal Is the Only Fix
  • Back It Up! Project Documentation Is Important
  • Writing Deals for Modular Construction
  • Legal Ease: Safety First on the Jobsite
  • Ensure Your Insurer Has the Right Info; Often, It Doesn’t
  • Playing the Name Game Often Makes Sense
  • Everyone, Sign Here, Please
  • Contractors: How to Make Sure You Get Paid
  • Sign Where? Smart Contracts May Be the Wise Way to Go
  • How to Procure a Government Contract
  • Think Your Insurance Policies Have You Covered? Better Be Sure
  • Simplifying BIM
  • Contracts: Learn the Language, Avoid the Risk
  • What If ‘Paid in Full’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Paid in Full’?
  • Cyber Criminals Prey on the Construction Business
  • Surprise, Surprise: Building to Fire-Resistant Codes Doesn’t Raise Home Prices
  • Restoring Grand Central Station: Bad with Good
  • How to Make Warranty Calls Part of a Marketing Plan
  • Construction Insurance: Anything New? Yes!
  • Sometimes Arbitration Really Is the Right Answer
  • Playing by the Rules Is a Losing Proposition
  • Con Game: the Seedy World of Construction Fraud
  • Legal Ease: Have a Lawyer Review Construction Contracts–Always
  • Better Zoning Would Benefit Everybody
  • Who’s Liable When Building Products Fail?
  • Should a Doc Be on the Team?
    Should a Doc Be on the Team?
  • Age Worthy? Get Set for Suits Alleging Discrimination Against Oldsters
  • Safe at Home: Protecting Consumers on the Jobsite
  • Going to Pot? Contractors Take the Legal High Road
  • Appraisals: Will Tech Take Over from Humans?
  • Can’t Make It There: Why Design-Build Isn’t Working in New York City
  • Citation Notation: OSHA’s Top 10 for 2016
  • Documenting Historic Details
    Documenting Historic Details
  • The New Business of Managing Risk
  • Don’t Go to War Over Cost-Plus
  • What Are the Top 10 OSHA Violations?
  • Can You Patent a Lighting Design?
  • Is Your Home Legal?
  • Managing Risk When You Use a Staffing Firm
  • Laying Down the Law for Real Estate Investors
  • Is Taking on Skyscrapers a Tall Order?
  • City Scape: Rising Up Against Centralized Urban Planning
  • Legal Eagle: Watch Out for Fine Print in Performance Deals
  • Feds Say, Architects Deserve Overtime Pay
  • On the Record: OSHA’s Final Word
  • OSHA Rules: What You Need to Know About the Silica Edict
  • In Reality, Are House Flippers Only Playing a Part?
  • Five Most Common Plumbing Code Violations
  • Dust Storm! New Rule on Silica Stirs a Controversy
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