By: Alex Trueblood Contractors and vendors performing public works projects for the City of Indianapolis have long been required to make a good-faith effort to comply with the City’s requirements to utilize at least 24% of project funding from the City or from Marion… Read More >
Project Delivery
The City of Indianapolis Strengthens Contractors Requirement for Use of Minority, Women, and Disabled-Owned Businesses
COVID-19, OSHA, and the OSHA Whistleblower
By: Sean T. Devenney As a result of COVID-19 in Indiana, employees working in essential job functions are certainly asking more questions about safety in the workplace than ever before. These employees are finely tuned to the “social distancing requirements” and recommendations of the… Read More >
Construction Project Delays in a COVID-19 World
By: Patrick A. Drewry Since COVID-19 was formally declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the construction industry has been bracing for the impact it may have on the health of its employees and workers and on operations as a whole. There has been… Read More >
New Integrated Project Delivery Agreement Released by ConsensusDocs
By: Joseph M. Leone, Drewry Simmons Vornehm, LLP ConsensusDocs released its new and improved Integrated Project Delivery form contract on January 12, 2016. Titled the Multiparty Integrated Project Delivery Agreement, but still identified as ConsensusDocs 300, the CD300 received a total make-over from its… Read More >
Ohio Legislature to Allow Design-Build and Construction Manager at Risk on Public Projects
By: Sean T. Devenney Ohio recently passed dramatic changes to its public works procurement statute. In particular, Ohio authorized the utilization of both the design-build and construction manager at risk (CMAR) delivery method for construction projects. Amazingly, Ohio has gone from only permitting public… Read More >
Recent Market Study Shows that Design Build is Utilized in 40% of Projects
By: Sean T. Devenney On May 31, 2011, Reed Construction Data/RSMeans Market Intelligence issued a report commissioned by the Design Build Institute of America showing that the design-build project delivery method has a 40% share of the vertical non-residential construction market as of 2010. … Read More >
Agency CM Held to Have Contractually Assumed a Duty to Injured Worker
By: Sean T. Devenney The Indiana Courts are “on a roll” when it comes to new construction cases—there have been several big cases this year touching all levels of the construction industry. The latest case, Hunt Construction Group, Inc. et. al. v. Garrett deals… Read More >