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Construction Law : An Introduction for Engineers, Architects, and Contractors.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newark : R. S. Means Company, Incorporated, 2012Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118360750
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Construction LawDDC classification:
  • 343.7307/8624
LOC classification:
  • KF902 .K45 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Construction Law: An Introduction for engineers, Architects, and Contractors -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1: Law and Government -- 1.1: Introduction -- 1.1.1: The Powers of Governments -- 1.1.2: City and County Governments -- 1.1.3: The Powers of the Federal Government -- 1.2: The Sources and Hierarchy of Law -- 1.2.1: The Constitution -- 1.2.2: Statutes and Ordinances -- 1.2.3: Agency Regulations -- 1.2.4: International Treaties -- 1.2.5: Appellate Court Opinions -- 1.3: The American Judicial System -- 1.3.1: Structure of the Court Systems -- 1.3.2: Federal Trial and Appeals Courts -- 1.3.3: State Trial and Appeals Courts -- 1.4: Common Law -- 1.4.1: Stare Decisis -- 1.4.2: Restatements of the Law -- 1.5: Legal Codes -- 1.5.1: Uniform Codes -- 1.5.2: The Uniform Commercial Code -- 1.6: Legal Doctrines -- 1.7: Choice-of-Law Clauses -- 1.8: Criminal Law versus Civil Law -- 1.9: Cause of Action -- 1.10: Summary Judgment -- 2: Basic Legal Principles -- 2.1: Legal Issues in Construction -- 2.2: Principles of Contract Law -- 2.2.1: Unilateral Contracts versus Bilateral Contracts -- 2.2.2: Oral Contracts -- 2.2.3: Third-Party Beneficiaries -- 2.2.4: Contract Interpretation -- 2.3: Principles of Agency Law -- 2.3.1: Apparent Authority -- 2.3.2: The Principal's Liability for the Agent's Acts -- 2.3.3: Ratification -- 2.4: Principles of Tort Law -- 2.4.1: Intentional Torts -- 2.4.2: Unintentional Torts (Negligence) -- 2.4.3: Strict Liability -- 2.4.4: Misrepresentation -- 3: Project Participants -- 3.1: The Owner -- 3.1.1: Access to the Building Site -- 3.1.2: Restrictions on Use of the Property -- 3.2: The Design Professional Team -- 3.2.1: Site Evaluation Consultants -- 3.2.2: The Geotechnical Consultant -- 3.3: The Construction Team -- 3.3.1: Subcontractors and Suppliers -- 3.4: Construction Lenders.
3.4.1: Collateral Assignment to Lender -- 3.4.2: Other Lender Requirements -- 3.4.3: Construction Loans -- 3.4.4: Bond Financing -- 4: Project Delivery Systems -- 4.1: Design-Bid-Build -- 4.2: Multiple Primes -- 4.3: Construction Management -- 4.3.1: Agency Construction Management -- 4.3.2: Construction Management At-Risk (CMAR) -- 4.4: Design-Build -- 4.4.1: Design-Build Proposals -- 4.4.2: Advantages and Disadvantages of Design-Build -- 4.4.3: Bridging Consultants -- 4.5: Engineer-Procure-Construct (EPC) -- 4.6: Turnkey Construction -- 4.7: Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) -- 4.8: Fast-Track Construction -- 4.9: Public-Private Partnerships -- 4.9.1: History of Public-Private Partnerships -- 4.9.2: Constraints on Public-Private Partnerships -- 5: Construction Contracts -- 5.1: The Construction Contract -- 5.1.1: Prebid Conferences -- 5.1.2: Right to Reject Bids -- 5.2: The Contract Documents (Owner-Contractor) -- 5.2.1: The Contractor's Bid -- 5.3: Conflicts between the Documents -- 5.4: Errors in the Documents -- 5.4.1: Latent Discrepancies -- 5.5: Specific over General -- Written over Printed -- 5.6: Interpretation against Drafter -- 5.7: Specifications -- 5.8: Description of the Work under a Construction Contract -- 5.9: Third-Party Beneficiaries -- 5.10: Industry Standard Forms versus Custom Forms -- 5.10.1: Drafting Custom Forms -- 5.10.2: AIA Contract Documents -- 5.10.3: Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee (EJCDC) -- 5.10.4: ConsensusDOCS -- 5.10.5: Comparing the AIA, EJCDC, and ConsensusDOCS Documents -- 5.10.6: AGC Forms -- 5.10.7: Other Industry Standard Forms -- 5.11: Commencement of Work Prior to Contract -- 5.11.1: Letters of Intent -- 6: The Design Process -- 6.1: Design Responsibilities -- 6.1.1: Contractor's Responsibility for Design -- 6.1.2: Value Engineering -- 6.2: The Owner's Program.
6.3: The Design Agreement (Owner-A/E) -- 6.3.1: Schematic Design Phase -- 6.3.2: Design Development Phase -- 6.3.3: Construction Documents Phase -- 6.3.4: Bidding or Negotiation Phase Services -- 6.3.5: Construction Phase Services -- 6.3.6: Basic Services versus Additional Services -- 6.3.7: The A/E's Compensation -- 6.4: Standard of Care Applicable to Design Services -- 6.4.1: Contractual Standard of Care -- 6.4.2: Proving Violation of the Standard of Care -- 6.4.3: Implied Warranties -- 6.4.4: Designing to the Owner's Budget -- 6.4.5: The A/E's Liability for its Estimate -- 6.5: Ownership of the Design Documents -- 6.5.1: Use of the Plans and Specifications -- 6.6: Termination of the Design Agreement -- 7: The Procurement Process -- 7.1: Selection of Contractors for Public Projects -- 7.1.1: The Bid Package -- 7.1.2: Duty to Award to the Lowest Bidder -- 7.1.3: Bid Responsiveness -- 7.1.4: Responsible Bidder -- 7.1.5: Bid Protests -- 7.1.6: Bid Security -- 7.1.7: "Best Value" Awards -- 7.2: Selection of Design Professionals -- 7.3: Alternatives to Design-Bid-Build in the Public Sector -- 7.3.1: Design-Build Construction in the Public Sector -- 7.4: The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) -- 7.5: Procurement on Private Projects -- 8: Pricing Construction Projects -- 8.1: Fixed-Price Contracts -- 8.1.1: Fundamental Characteristic of a Fixed-Price Contract -- 8.1.2: Allowances -- 8.1.3: Material Price Escalation Clauses -- 8.1.4: Index Pricing -- 8.2: Cost-Plus Contracts -- 8.2.1: Labor -- 8.2.2: Subcontracted Work -- 8.2.3: Heavy Equipment -- 8.2.4: Small Tool Allowance -- 8.2.5: Reasonableness or Necessity of Costs Incurred -- 8.2.6: Contractor's Overhead and Profit -- 8.2.7: Estimates and Cost-Plus Contracts -- 8.2.8: Timely Payment Discounts -- 8.2.9: Audit Rights -- 8.3: Cost-Plus with Guaranteed Maximum Price -- 8.4: Unit-Price Contracts.
8.4.1: Variation in Estimated Quantities (VEQ) Clauses -- 8.5: Unbalanced Bidding -- 8.6: Bidding When the Design Is Incomplete -- 9: Subcontractors and Suppliers -- 9.1: Subcontractors versus Suppliers -- 9.2: Owner's Control over Subcontractor Selection -- 9.3: Subcontractor Bids -- 9.3.1: Enforcing a Subcontractor's Bid -- 9.3.2: The Subcontractor's Right to Enforce Its Bid -- 9.4: Incorporation by Reference -- 9.5: Flow-down and Flow-up Provisions -- 9.5.1: Rights and Liabilities of the Parties under Flow-down Provisions -- 9.6: Duty to Cooperate and Coordinate Subcontract Work -- 9.6.1: Limiting the Liability for Coordination -- 9.6.2: Coordination of Multiple Primes -- 9.7: Subcontractor Payment -- 9.7.1: "Pay-If-Paid" versus "Pay-When-Paid -- 9.8: Subcontractor Claims against the Owner -- 9.8.1: The Pass-through System -- 9.8.2: Liquidating Agreements -- 9.9: Conditional Assignment of the Subcontracts to the Owner -- 9.10: Minority and Disadvantaged Business Programs -- 9.10.1: Federal Minority and Disadvantaged Business Programs -- 9.10.2: Agency DBE Programs -- 10: Time for Performance -- 10.1: Time Is of the Essence -- 10.1.1: Time-Is-of-the-Essence Clauses in Construction Contracts -- 10.2: Date of Commencement/Time for Completion -- 10.2.1: Delays in Commencement of the Work -- 10.2.2: Waiver of Time for Completion -- 10.3: Substantial Completion -- 10.3.1: The Significance of Substantial Completion -- 10.3.2: Establishing Substantial Completion -- 10.4: Final Completion/Final Payment -- 10.4.1: Acceptance of Defective Work -- 10.5: Delays -- 10.5.1: Determining Whether a Delay Was within a Party's Control -- 10.5.2: Delays Due to Weather -- 10.5.3: Concurrent Delays -- 10.6: Liquidated Damages -- 10.7: Constructive Acceleration -- 10.8: Right to Finish Early -- 10.9: Milestones -- 11: Construction Scheduling -- 11.1: Bar Charts.
11.2: Critical Path Scheduling -- 11.2.1: Activity Logic -- 11.2.2: Arrow Diagramming -- 11.2.3: Precedence Diagramming -- 11.2.4: As-Planned (Baseline) Schedule -- 11.2.5: Float -- 11.2.6: Critical Path -- 11.2.7: Multiple Calendars -- 11.3: Scheduling Specifications -- 11.4: Schedule Updates -- 11.5: Resource Leveling -- 11.6: CPM-Based Methods for Proof of Delay Claims -- 11.6.1: Total Time Analysis -- 11.6.2: Impacted As-Planned ("What-If ") -- 11.6.3: Collapsed As-Built ("But For") -- 11.6.4: As-Planned versus As-Built -- 11.6.5: Windows Analysis -- 11.7: Expert Witness Testimony -- 11.8: Using CPM to Estimate Extensions of Time -- 11.9: Using Bar Charts to Prove Delay Claims -- 12: Contract Administration -- 12.1: The A/E's Role in Contract Administration -- 12.2: A/E's Liability for Contract Administration -- 12.2.1: Approval of Shop Drawings and Other Submittals -- 12.2.2: Site Visits and Inspections -- 12.2.3: AIA B101 Provisions -- 12.2.4: The Right to Stop Work -- 12.2.5: Approval of Progress Payments -- 12.2.6: Responding to Change Order Requests -- 12.2.7: Requests for Information, Interpretations, and Clarifications -- 12.3: A/E's Role in Contractor Termination -- 12.4: Initial Decision Maker (IDM) -- 13: The Payment Process -- 13.1: Progress Payments -- 13.1.1: Schedule of Values -- 13.1.2: The Application for Payment -- 13.1.3: Certification of Payment -- 13.2: Retainage -- 13.2.1: Payment of Subcontractor's Retainage -- 13.2.2: Claims on Retainage -- 13.3: Accord and Satisfaction -- 13.3.1: Payment of an Accord by Check -- 13.4: Joint Checks -- 13.4.1: Joint Payee versus Alternative Payee -- 13.5: Title Insurance -- 13.6: Obligations of the Lender -- 13.7: Evidence of Financing -- 13.8: Prompt Payment Acts -- 13.8.1: The Progress Payment Request -- 13.8.2: Payment on Subcontracts.
13.9: The Owner's Payment Obligation on Private Construction.
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Intro -- Construction Law: An Introduction for engineers, Architects, and Contractors -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1: Law and Government -- 1.1: Introduction -- 1.1.1: The Powers of Governments -- 1.1.2: City and County Governments -- 1.1.3: The Powers of the Federal Government -- 1.2: The Sources and Hierarchy of Law -- 1.2.1: The Constitution -- 1.2.2: Statutes and Ordinances -- 1.2.3: Agency Regulations -- 1.2.4: International Treaties -- 1.2.5: Appellate Court Opinions -- 1.3: The American Judicial System -- 1.3.1: Structure of the Court Systems -- 1.3.2: Federal Trial and Appeals Courts -- 1.3.3: State Trial and Appeals Courts -- 1.4: Common Law -- 1.4.1: Stare Decisis -- 1.4.2: Restatements of the Law -- 1.5: Legal Codes -- 1.5.1: Uniform Codes -- 1.5.2: The Uniform Commercial Code -- 1.6: Legal Doctrines -- 1.7: Choice-of-Law Clauses -- 1.8: Criminal Law versus Civil Law -- 1.9: Cause of Action -- 1.10: Summary Judgment -- 2: Basic Legal Principles -- 2.1: Legal Issues in Construction -- 2.2: Principles of Contract Law -- 2.2.1: Unilateral Contracts versus Bilateral Contracts -- 2.2.2: Oral Contracts -- 2.2.3: Third-Party Beneficiaries -- 2.2.4: Contract Interpretation -- 2.3: Principles of Agency Law -- 2.3.1: Apparent Authority -- 2.3.2: The Principal's Liability for the Agent's Acts -- 2.3.3: Ratification -- 2.4: Principles of Tort Law -- 2.4.1: Intentional Torts -- 2.4.2: Unintentional Torts (Negligence) -- 2.4.3: Strict Liability -- 2.4.4: Misrepresentation -- 3: Project Participants -- 3.1: The Owner -- 3.1.1: Access to the Building Site -- 3.1.2: Restrictions on Use of the Property -- 3.2: The Design Professional Team -- 3.2.1: Site Evaluation Consultants -- 3.2.2: The Geotechnical Consultant -- 3.3: The Construction Team -- 3.3.1: Subcontractors and Suppliers -- 3.4: Construction Lenders.

3.4.1: Collateral Assignment to Lender -- 3.4.2: Other Lender Requirements -- 3.4.3: Construction Loans -- 3.4.4: Bond Financing -- 4: Project Delivery Systems -- 4.1: Design-Bid-Build -- 4.2: Multiple Primes -- 4.3: Construction Management -- 4.3.1: Agency Construction Management -- 4.3.2: Construction Management At-Risk (CMAR) -- 4.4: Design-Build -- 4.4.1: Design-Build Proposals -- 4.4.2: Advantages and Disadvantages of Design-Build -- 4.4.3: Bridging Consultants -- 4.5: Engineer-Procure-Construct (EPC) -- 4.6: Turnkey Construction -- 4.7: Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) -- 4.8: Fast-Track Construction -- 4.9: Public-Private Partnerships -- 4.9.1: History of Public-Private Partnerships -- 4.9.2: Constraints on Public-Private Partnerships -- 5: Construction Contracts -- 5.1: The Construction Contract -- 5.1.1: Prebid Conferences -- 5.1.2: Right to Reject Bids -- 5.2: The Contract Documents (Owner-Contractor) -- 5.2.1: The Contractor's Bid -- 5.3: Conflicts between the Documents -- 5.4: Errors in the Documents -- 5.4.1: Latent Discrepancies -- 5.5: Specific over General -- Written over Printed -- 5.6: Interpretation against Drafter -- 5.7: Specifications -- 5.8: Description of the Work under a Construction Contract -- 5.9: Third-Party Beneficiaries -- 5.10: Industry Standard Forms versus Custom Forms -- 5.10.1: Drafting Custom Forms -- 5.10.2: AIA Contract Documents -- 5.10.3: Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee (EJCDC) -- 5.10.4: ConsensusDOCS -- 5.10.5: Comparing the AIA, EJCDC, and ConsensusDOCS Documents -- 5.10.6: AGC Forms -- 5.10.7: Other Industry Standard Forms -- 5.11: Commencement of Work Prior to Contract -- 5.11.1: Letters of Intent -- 6: The Design Process -- 6.1: Design Responsibilities -- 6.1.1: Contractor's Responsibility for Design -- 6.1.2: Value Engineering -- 6.2: The Owner's Program.

6.3: The Design Agreement (Owner-A/E) -- 6.3.1: Schematic Design Phase -- 6.3.2: Design Development Phase -- 6.3.3: Construction Documents Phase -- 6.3.4: Bidding or Negotiation Phase Services -- 6.3.5: Construction Phase Services -- 6.3.6: Basic Services versus Additional Services -- 6.3.7: The A/E's Compensation -- 6.4: Standard of Care Applicable to Design Services -- 6.4.1: Contractual Standard of Care -- 6.4.2: Proving Violation of the Standard of Care -- 6.4.3: Implied Warranties -- 6.4.4: Designing to the Owner's Budget -- 6.4.5: The A/E's Liability for its Estimate -- 6.5: Ownership of the Design Documents -- 6.5.1: Use of the Plans and Specifications -- 6.6: Termination of the Design Agreement -- 7: The Procurement Process -- 7.1: Selection of Contractors for Public Projects -- 7.1.1: The Bid Package -- 7.1.2: Duty to Award to the Lowest Bidder -- 7.1.3: Bid Responsiveness -- 7.1.4: Responsible Bidder -- 7.1.5: Bid Protests -- 7.1.6: Bid Security -- 7.1.7: "Best Value" Awards -- 7.2: Selection of Design Professionals -- 7.3: Alternatives to Design-Bid-Build in the Public Sector -- 7.3.1: Design-Build Construction in the Public Sector -- 7.4: The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) -- 7.5: Procurement on Private Projects -- 8: Pricing Construction Projects -- 8.1: Fixed-Price Contracts -- 8.1.1: Fundamental Characteristic of a Fixed-Price Contract -- 8.1.2: Allowances -- 8.1.3: Material Price Escalation Clauses -- 8.1.4: Index Pricing -- 8.2: Cost-Plus Contracts -- 8.2.1: Labor -- 8.2.2: Subcontracted Work -- 8.2.3: Heavy Equipment -- 8.2.4: Small Tool Allowance -- 8.2.5: Reasonableness or Necessity of Costs Incurred -- 8.2.6: Contractor's Overhead and Profit -- 8.2.7: Estimates and Cost-Plus Contracts -- 8.2.8: Timely Payment Discounts -- 8.2.9: Audit Rights -- 8.3: Cost-Plus with Guaranteed Maximum Price -- 8.4: Unit-Price Contracts.

8.4.1: Variation in Estimated Quantities (VEQ) Clauses -- 8.5: Unbalanced Bidding -- 8.6: Bidding When the Design Is Incomplete -- 9: Subcontractors and Suppliers -- 9.1: Subcontractors versus Suppliers -- 9.2: Owner's Control over Subcontractor Selection -- 9.3: Subcontractor Bids -- 9.3.1: Enforcing a Subcontractor's Bid -- 9.3.2: The Subcontractor's Right to Enforce Its Bid -- 9.4: Incorporation by Reference -- 9.5: Flow-down and Flow-up Provisions -- 9.5.1: Rights and Liabilities of the Parties under Flow-down Provisions -- 9.6: Duty to Cooperate and Coordinate Subcontract Work -- 9.6.1: Limiting the Liability for Coordination -- 9.6.2: Coordination of Multiple Primes -- 9.7: Subcontractor Payment -- 9.7.1: "Pay-If-Paid" versus "Pay-When-Paid -- 9.8: Subcontractor Claims against the Owner -- 9.8.1: The Pass-through System -- 9.8.2: Liquidating Agreements -- 9.9: Conditional Assignment of the Subcontracts to the Owner -- 9.10: Minority and Disadvantaged Business Programs -- 9.10.1: Federal Minority and Disadvantaged Business Programs -- 9.10.2: Agency DBE Programs -- 10: Time for Performance -- 10.1: Time Is of the Essence -- 10.1.1: Time-Is-of-the-Essence Clauses in Construction Contracts -- 10.2: Date of Commencement/Time for Completion -- 10.2.1: Delays in Commencement of the Work -- 10.2.2: Waiver of Time for Completion -- 10.3: Substantial Completion -- 10.3.1: The Significance of Substantial Completion -- 10.3.2: Establishing Substantial Completion -- 10.4: Final Completion/Final Payment -- 10.4.1: Acceptance of Defective Work -- 10.5: Delays -- 10.5.1: Determining Whether a Delay Was within a Party's Control -- 10.5.2: Delays Due to Weather -- 10.5.3: Concurrent Delays -- 10.6: Liquidated Damages -- 10.7: Constructive Acceleration -- 10.8: Right to Finish Early -- 10.9: Milestones -- 11: Construction Scheduling -- 11.1: Bar Charts.

11.2: Critical Path Scheduling -- 11.2.1: Activity Logic -- 11.2.2: Arrow Diagramming -- 11.2.3: Precedence Diagramming -- 11.2.4: As-Planned (Baseline) Schedule -- 11.2.5: Float -- 11.2.6: Critical Path -- 11.2.7: Multiple Calendars -- 11.3: Scheduling Specifications -- 11.4: Schedule Updates -- 11.5: Resource Leveling -- 11.6: CPM-Based Methods for Proof of Delay Claims -- 11.6.1: Total Time Analysis -- 11.6.2: Impacted As-Planned ("What-If ") -- 11.6.3: Collapsed As-Built ("But For") -- 11.6.4: As-Planned versus As-Built -- 11.6.5: Windows Analysis -- 11.7: Expert Witness Testimony -- 11.8: Using CPM to Estimate Extensions of Time -- 11.9: Using Bar Charts to Prove Delay Claims -- 12: Contract Administration -- 12.1: The A/E's Role in Contract Administration -- 12.2: A/E's Liability for Contract Administration -- 12.2.1: Approval of Shop Drawings and Other Submittals -- 12.2.2: Site Visits and Inspections -- 12.2.3: AIA B101 Provisions -- 12.2.4: The Right to Stop Work -- 12.2.5: Approval of Progress Payments -- 12.2.6: Responding to Change Order Requests -- 12.2.7: Requests for Information, Interpretations, and Clarifications -- 12.3: A/E's Role in Contractor Termination -- 12.4: Initial Decision Maker (IDM) -- 13: The Payment Process -- 13.1: Progress Payments -- 13.1.1: Schedule of Values -- 13.1.2: The Application for Payment -- 13.1.3: Certification of Payment -- 13.2: Retainage -- 13.2.1: Payment of Subcontractor's Retainage -- 13.2.2: Claims on Retainage -- 13.3: Accord and Satisfaction -- 13.3.1: Payment of an Accord by Check -- 13.4: Joint Checks -- 13.4.1: Joint Payee versus Alternative Payee -- 13.5: Title Insurance -- 13.6: Obligations of the Lender -- 13.7: Evidence of Financing -- 13.8: Prompt Payment Acts -- 13.8.1: The Progress Payment Request -- 13.8.2: Payment on Subcontracts.

13.9: The Owner's Payment Obligation on Private Construction.

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