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Feature Articles

How To Get a Roof That Works (the First Time)—
Part II: Finding & Contracting with Your Roofing Team
In the second of three parts, Mike Holman and Scott Davis provide guidelines for interviewing Design Professionals and Construction Managers. They also share tips about what bid documents should say to attract the most competent Roofing Contractors.

Lean Scheduling: An Innovation in Construction Scheduling?
If you have noticed scheduling going more efficiently on some projects recently, it may be the result of "Lean Scheduling." Construction Fellow Ben Hyden relates how construction borrowed the "Lean" idea from auto manufacturing and used it to improve what is often a source of frustration on a construction site.

Monthly Columns

What the Legislators Are Considering
Link to information on pending legislation of particular interest, updated daily.

What the Courts Are Saying . . .
This month we update you on two cases discussed recently and then summarize four new cases, three from Ohio Courts of Appeals (on the "Your Work" exclusion in a commercial general liability policy, damages available when a contractor cuts underground utilities, and what a "fixture" is according to the mechanic's lien statutes) and an appellate decision from Washington State that sounds remarkably like the Dugan & Meyers case (on the cumulative impact of hundreds of Requests for Information and whether they relieved a contractor from the contractual obligation to give notice of any claim).

Holman, Gillis & Shevelow on Construction Documents:
Escrow of Bid Documents—An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
This month Doug Shevelow, P.E. and Esq., takes up a relatively new wrinkle in bid requirements: making the contractor who gets the contract put its bid documents in an escrow account. Doug discusses the pros and cons of this approach, particularly as the Ohio Department of Transportation implements it.

OSHA Corner: What's New in the World of Job Safety?
Read this to stay up-to-date on news and information regarding OSHA and job safety.

ADR Corner: What AAA Rules Say About the Mediation Briefs
When it comes to mediation briefs, the AAA Rules allow quite a bit of leeway. David Riddle discusses the options and possible strategies this month.

Upcoming Seminars
See information on upcoming construction seminars featuring Bricker & Eckler construction attorneys.

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Worst Construction Project Ever? Read About It in Berendt’s Latest Book
In a first-ever (and perhaps last) book review, Maureen Taylor hits the highlights that made reconstructing the fire-ravaged 204-year-old Opera House in Venice the standard for measuring all future nightmare projects, following publication of John Berendt's The City of Falling Angels.

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