Apportioning the risk of delay in construction projects: a proposed alternative to the inadequate "no damages for delay" clause.
INTRODUCTION Construction is a risky, competitive, and litigious business. (1) Each new construction venture may bring together hundreds of parties--including owners, architects, engineers of all varieties, general contractors, subcontractors and suppliers--many of whom have never dealt with each other on previous projects. The design of most projects...

ROEL Construction Deploys Packeteer Solutions.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-25 July 2007-ROEL Construction Deploys Packeteer Solutions(C)2007 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Packeteer, a provider of WAN Application Delivery, announced that ROEL Construction, a commercial building contractor in the western U.S., is deploying PacketShaper and iShared systems throughout its network to dramatically improve application performance, eliminate the...

Eugene district favored in labor ruling.
Byline: Anne Williams The Register-Guard A Lane County Circuit Court judge has ruled in favor of the Eugene School District in a long-running dispute with the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries over the prevailing wages paid to construction workers on four recent projects. In...

FLEX FUELS ENERGY SIGNS EARLY WORKS PACT WITH LURGI A.G,.
Flex Fuels Energy, Inc's (OTCBB:FXFL) wholly owned subsidiary, Flex Fuels Energy Limited ("FFE Ltd"), London, has entered into an Early Works Agreement ("EWA") with Lurgi Aktiengesellschaft ("Lurgi"), part of the Air Liquide Group, the foremost supplier of biofuel plant technology worldwide. Following completion of the EWA by Lurgi, FFE...

Fulfilling the Promise of e-Gov Initiatives--Part II: the integration of federal acquisition processes has already improved services--and the near future looks even brighter.
In Part I of this two-part series, we describe how the Integrated-Acquisition Environment (IAE), managed by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), is living up to the e-Gov promise. We showed the systems that have been shut down, paper forms replaced by automated systems, and benefits to agencies and...

Cutting costs from the inside out: choosing certain building elements can produce savings and other benefits.
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] BUDGET-PRESSED DISTRICT administrators looking for ways to save money are finding them right before their eyes--in the infrastructure of their school facilities. From carpets, flooring and roofing to playing fields, HVAC systems and windows and doors, districts are discovering products for core building elements that...

Ex-91 prez Dellaccio threw loyalty under the bus to save his own skin: FBI docs paint picture of tough guy who folded under questioning.
For nearly two decades, corrupt Laborers Local 91 kingpin Michael "Butch" Quarcini knew he could rely on his "Goon Squad"--a group of men under the direct command of feared enforcer Mark Congi--to do his dirty work for him. Whether he needed a house bombed, a bar shot...

WindConnect Completes Construction of Harvest Wind Farm.
ENERGY RESOURCE-27 May 2008-WindConnect Completes Construction of Harvest Wind Farm(C)2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com WindConnect today announced that it has completed construction of the Harvest Wind Farm, located on 3,200 acres in Huron County, Michigan, and the first utility-scale wind facility to operate in the state of Michigan....

Trickledown wrap-up tricks: midsized construction projects may benefit from an insurance approach long used at the largest sites. A careful analysis will show if this approach makes sense for specific projects.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rising costs are prompting general contractors, developers and owners with midsized projects to explore an insurance program that has controlled the cost of risk on much larger projects. Consolidated insurance programs, or CIPs, create a single workers' compensation and general liability insurance program...

Technique meets technology.
Technique meets technology By Jackie Roembke Wood Company Inc. adds new finishing line, quadruples output Wood Company Inc. has leveraged its versatility and expert craftsmanship to make the move from material supplier to a premier architectural millwork firm. In 1976 the...