Source: https://www.constructiondive.com/, August 21, 2024 By; Nish Amarnath As environmental regulations for commercial buildings and properties tighten across the U.S., green leases and technologies offer owners and operators opportunities to reduce their portfolios’ carbon footprints, generate cost savings and further align with ESG goals. Challenges with monitoring and managing scope 3 emissions, however, continue to pose […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com/, August 21, 2024 By: Sebastian Obando The importance of an effective preconstruction process has never been more apparent, said Brett Poulos, national director of preconstruction and estimating at Burns & McDonnell, a Kansas City, Missouri-based construction company. Construction input prices increased again in July largely due to price hikes in petroleum and natural […]

Source: https://abc7.com/, August 20, 2024 The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $20.8 million to fix issues at the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant and to complete related environmental projects linked to the discharge of millions of gallons of wastewater into Santa Monica Bay in 2021, officials announced Tuesday. Hyperion, the city’s oldest and […]

Source: Professional Underwriters Agency (PUA) A claim was made against an electrical engineer for providing faulty electrical drawings for a new medical campus. The electrical  engineering firm hired another engineer, with whom they had a previous relationship, to prepare a portion of the design. Although the  electrical drawings at issue were the subconsultant’s design, it […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2024/08/16/788623.htm, August 16, 2024 By: Andrew G. Simpson A home builder is not covered under the property damage coverage in its commercial liability policy for construction defects for which it was responsible. A three-judge panel of the Massachusetts Appeals Court has held for the first time that “construction defects, standing alone, do not constitute […]

Source: https://www.agc.org/, August 15, 2024 When choosing between the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and ConsensusDocs design-build contract documents, owners and contractors must understand how each will yield vastly different results on critical issues such as managing timely and sufficient design services.  Both ConsensusDocs and the AIA publish coordinated families of standard design-build contract documents. […]

Source: https://www.cnet.com/, August 19, 2024 By: Omar Gallaga Predictions that wind and solar energy in the US would eventually overtake coal in terms of how much energy is produced in a year appear to have finally come true. For the first time, it appears that solar and wind renewables will produce more energy in the US than […]

Source: https://global.lockton.com/, August 14, 2024 Overall capacity in the environmental insurance market is robust, and pricing is generally stable for most buyers. In the face of emerging hazards and a challenging and uncertain regulatory landscape, however, insurers continue to deploy capital judiciously. Read more.

Source: https://www.wpri.com/, August 16, 2024 By: Eli Sherman, Tim White Rhode Island has filed a lawsuit against 13 companies over the failure of the Washington Bridge, alleging they failed to identify and address “worsening structural issues” that ultimately resulted in its abrupt closure last December. The allegations of breach of contract, fiduciary duty and negligence […]

Source: https://www.jdsupra.com/, August 12, 2024 By: Frantz Ward LLP Most of us involved in the construction industry are familiar with the Design-Build model of project delivery, and how it differs from the “standard” Design-Bid-Build model. But increasingly certain industries are embracing a slightly different model – the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction delivery model, or EPC […]

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/, August 11, 2024 By: Shannon Pettypiece After five decades working as a teacher and school administrator, Janet Stone envisioned a relaxing retirement in her condo overlooking Florida’s Atlantic coast. Instead, she’s gone back to work teaching preschoolers with disabilities and living with her son in Las Vegas to pay off a $100,000 bill […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, August 9, 2024 By: Tom Perkins Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” that leach from landfills into groundwater are among the major pollution sources in the US, and remain a problem for which officials have yet to find an effective solution. Now new research has identified another route in which PFAS may escape landfills and threaten the environment at […]