Construction Attorney (Los Angeles )

The Law Offices of Elan Darvish provides a broad array of services that encompass all phases of the construction process, from construction contract formation and negotiation through litigation and resolution ... projects, large multi unit residential projects to large commercial projects throughout Southern [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 08:00:55

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Good organizational skills

by Daniel Massey NYC Central Labor Council head will work to protect jobs, bring federal stimulus to city ... , the union’s top position, in 1996. He has successfully negotiated hundreds of contracts ... -profile construction accidents. “He knows people sometimes start from different points [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 16:00:21

Corruption : Ethiopia’s Corrupt Rulers Play on US Tax Payer Money Provdied By World Bank & IMF

(ION) - Now that the EPRDF ... ceramics for the construction industry. It is winning all of the contracts, to such an extent ... of Sunshine Construction whose executives Samuel Tadesse and Fetlework Elala are close to her. Moreover [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 05:57:04

Contractors sponsor commissioner’s trips

CONTRACTORS SPONSOR COMMISSIONER'S TRIPS While Mississippi’s top four transportation officials travel often at taxpayer expense, they also are frequently taken away with their wives to popular tourist destinations and put up in luxury hotels with tabs picked up by groups of road builders who receive construction contracts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:14:31

'Hedge Funds Look at Northern Arizona Land as an Investment'

Rolling Hills Ranches, LLC has engaged experts from the Master Planned Communities group of Kitchell Construction to provide planning oversight for ... and Nevada. Kitchell Contractors provides construction management and general contracting services to private sector clients. Kitchell Corporation also owns American Refrigeration Supplies, an air [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 09:45:00

Three Things Every Contractor Should Know Before Signing That Construction Contract for Building Remediation

by G. Trippe Hawthorne and Mark D. Mese In a perfect world, Contractors would only do business with owners, designers, subcontractors, ... , if you are doing remediation, are you going to be paid by the property owner, the building tenant ... you are working? Are those asbestos tiles? Is that mold in the corner? The last thing you need [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 13:20:04

Now They’re Scrambling In Florida

The Palm Beach Post reports from Florida. “In the past four decades, the Altman Cos ... .’” “With the financial markets in turmoil and home prices continuing their descent to unknown depths, more and more home buyers are desperately looking for ways out of pre-construction contracts [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 14:50:03

Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 1/14/09

Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 1/14/09 Today's LexBlogsphere roundup has a few posts that start to look ahead ... ; Sullivan on their Federal Construction Contracting Blog Holiday Overtime - Somerville attorney Frank ... Another Banner Day at FDA - Management consultant Cliff Mintz of BioInsights Inc. at his Bio Job Blog [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:32:39

Quick Take: Emcor Group Inc.

EMCOR Group is a construction contractor that handles installation and maintenance of several building systems, including electrical, HVAC, plumbing, ... from the heavily cyclical commercial construction market. By focusing on growing maintenance contracts, EMCOR ... here. Last year, about half of EMCOR's revenues were from new construction projects, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 10:55:07

Assembly subpoenas Yankees over stadium

More Pay to Play or huge donations to campaign accounts, or large lucrative contracts for the buddies in construction companies? Boy all we have to do is follow the money in anything, everything [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:23:28

March Professional Trailbuilders Conference in Asheville, NC

Set for March 15 - 20, 2009 in Asheville, NC, the Professional Trailbuilders Conference will feature seminars, expositions, demonstrations and meetings for those that manage or build trails. Topics include design and construction, land management, trail planning, contracting, advocacy and other related matters [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:34:49

As Real Estate Market Stays Sour, Courts Punish Builders Who Stray From Construction Schedules, Relieving Buyers From Contracts

Back in August of 2008, as knowledge of the global financial crisis was both broadening and deepening, ... for deviation from the promised two-year construction schedule.  While the developer obtained [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 04:04:04

Steam Generators News - Steam Generator Repair

A Disconcert to Todd's The Oil Drum - Jan 17, 2009 We also must two back-up generators, ... industrial or manufacturing OGS to Presentation over $9.1 Million in New Construction Contracts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 06:28:33

Rumor: Fiat to link with Chrysler

Rumor: Fiat to link with Chrysler January 19th, 2009 by DaveAdmin Last year, ... , including the contract construction of Fiat’s commercial trucks in the United States, and a partnership [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:34:56

Olympic village developer speaks out

Olympic village developer speaks out By Jeff Lee 01-20-2009 COMMENTS(0) ... some of the construction contracts with trades and sub-trades, effectively making it that much harder [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 07:46:00

Business Manager (Qatar)

Your responsibilities: You will create and develop the market in Qatar ... support to projects during the design and construction phases. You will ensure that new contracts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 13:41:05

Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear power: More trouble brewing at Olkiluoto

Over the holiday season there’s been a very interesting development in the construction of the OL3 nuclear reactor in Olkiluoto, Finland ... contracts are drawn up all over the world. Both outcomes appear to be bad news for the taxpayer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 13:48:58

Live LexBlog blogs for the week of 1/5-1/9

Live LexBlog blogs for the week of 1/5-1/9 Everyone's back to work and finding their groove now that we've experienced our first full business ... Tannenbaum publish the Florida Community Association Construction Law Blog, where they provide insight on maintenance and repair contracts, transition claims and other relevant topics. The New York Injury [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 01:17:31

January Beige Book

From the Federal Reserve: January Beige Book - Second District–New York Construction and Real Estate Housing markets in the District have been ... contracts negotiated in late 2007 and early 2008. Based on current contracts, overall apartment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:27:05

Freepers In Iraq

You'll have to click this link to read the whole thing.5 years of struggle has paid off. Say what you will about "why" ... and expediting functions on the construction of coalition camps, Iraqi Army camps and police stations ... waiting areas.Another 17 daily flights were recently added and more airlines are signing contracts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 22:46:00

How the system works (by Russell Roberts)

Rod Blagojevich will probably go to jail for trying to sell a Senate seat and various other shenanigans ... , Calif., company that in 2004 was awarded two consulting contracts worth about $1.4 million to advise ... the developer, Robert J. Congel, to use tax-exempt bonds to help finance the construction of the Destiny [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 03:10:12

NEW YORK CITY CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL APPOINTS NEW PRESIDENT - Jack Ahern, the business manager of Operating Engineers local 30

from CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS:Jack Ahern: Organizing his worldNYC Central Labor Council head will work to protect jobs, ... has successfully negotiated hundreds of contracts for the 4,000-member Queens-based local, including ... officials together last year following several high-profile construction accidents.“He knows people [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 23:32:41

Stadium News - Sort of

As anticipated, the county's vote on the contracts have been pushed back to February ... is not guaranteed, as a two-thirds majority of county commissioners must approve the construction and management agreements. The reason: The Marlins hired contractors without going through a county bid [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 14:46:20

December 15-16, 2008 FOMC Minutes

The Fed seems a bit concerned about the horse now that its out of the barn . . ... weakened again as construction activity, new home sales, and home prices declined further. In the business sector, investment in equipment and software appeared to continue to contract. Industrial [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 19:36:59

Zionist Control of US Policy

Source I was recently asked to answer the following question: In the original post there is mention of Israel controlling US policy. How exactly does that work? The short answer is this: A highly influential and extremely well bankrolled collection of groups directs energy simultaneously in a number of directions: Political, media, academic, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 20:51:14

No Brainer by digby This seems like one thing President Obama could do quickly to reassure Americans that he's looking out for the working folks: ... and at the same time indirectly paid for more than 8 million workers through contracts and grants, according ... and protect the rights of all workers under government contracts. They argue it’s a matter [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 02:30:00

Much in Obama stimulus bill won't hit economy soon

WASHINGTON (AP) — It will take years before an infrastructure spending program proposed by President-elect Barack Obama will boost the economy, ... -fashioned public works projects like roads, bridges and repairs of public housing.Less than half of the $30 billion in highway construction funds detailed by House Democrats would be released into the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 17:23:00

The Economic Case for Unions, (and how they help us all)

By BJ In economics, you are taught to look at the labor market as though it was no different from any other market, in which the forces of supply and demand determine the price and quantity. In a perfect world, competition would result in everyone earning their marginal product of labor, a fancy way of saying you’d get paid what you’re worth [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 19:50:40

Much in Obama stimulus bill won't hit economy soon

WASHINGTON – It will take years before an infrastructure spending program proposed by President-elect Barack Obama will boost the economy, ... through old-fashioned public works projects like roads, bridges and repairs of public housing. Less than half of the $30 billion in highway construction funds detailed by House Democrats would [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 09:03:49

Forum of Gas Exporting Countries

"The time of cheap energy resources, and cheap gas is surely coming to an end." Vladimir V. Putin This past Tuesday in Moscow and largely at the behest of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, fourteen large natural gas-producing countries met to establish an organization that will study ways to set global natural gas prices by limiting [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 05:43:31

Real-World Consequences Of The Meltdown

Look around you and you probably know somebody who had been affected by the economic slowdown, particularly here in California. Maybe it's someone you know in the construction industry: State Controller John Chiang refused to make payments Thursday to contractors for work done on more than three-dozen public-works [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:35:57

Construction Remodeling is the Better Option in Current Financial Climate

Are you one of the lucky homeowners who did not fall into the trap set by unscrupulous mortgage lenders during the final bubble of the US housing ... your home. Building contracts can explain to you the costs of home improvement, and give you ideas on how ... for you. Now that you have a good construction remodeling plan and have the budget all in order [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 04:33:32

Предсказания Кюнстлера на 2009 - США, Нефть, Геополитика, Путин

Спонсор месяца - #1 RX pharmacy affiliate program!Сайт дня (как попасть) - http://www.business-magazine.ru/There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 07:59:00

Castro’s Cuba Leaves Nothing to Be Admired

I have a very close friend (who shall go unnammed) that seems to admire Fidel Castro. Well my friend, I came across this post at IBD editorials about Cuba’s 50 years of failure, and I just had to share it! Spare us the fireworks and media-parroted claims of Fidel Castro’s dictatorship bringing universal health care and education [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 06:33:42

Obama’s stimulus package won’t help for years

Wow, an honest headline from the Associated Press! To what do we owe this momentous occurrence? ... to pump up the economy through old-fashioned public works projects like roads, bridges and repairs ... by House Democrats would be released into the economy over the next four years, concludes the analysis [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:44:55

A recession of Olympic proportions

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and John Armitt, chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, at the Olympic Park in Stratford So, ... not.” The insufficiency of available credit scuppered plans last year to raise private funding ... in Europe will be stepping up construction and trying to resolve solution funding issues. The Olympic [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 19:06:26

Forecast for 2009

Introduction       There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) is that our problems of finance and economy will self-correct and allow the project of a "consumer" economy to resume in "growth" mode [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 03:33:57

Senior Project Manager

Power System Engineer for Dublin We are looking to recruit an Electrical Power System Engineer for a private-owned company based in Dublin. Education and experience: A relevant Ms. level Engineering or Construction degree, preferably ... to the Production Management Manage internal project team and interface with other departments [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 16:11:42

Zionists in America, A to Z

I hope it's okay with Malooga and Bernhard at MofA, but I'm posting this entire piece. It's very, very long, and you'll probably need to spend some hours both reading it and following its links... but this is the essential information we all need to master in confronting the racist and malignant movement known as Zionism [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 19:16:00

Will All Be Well, And End Well, In Estonia?

Well, there doesn’t seem to much room for doubt at this point does there, the Baltic Economies are in the van of the European economic slowdown for 2009, just as they were leading the charge up in 2007, and all that debate about whether we were going to get a hard landing or a soft one seems now so out of date and and old hat as we watch how [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 15:59:56

House Appropriations Recovery Bill Could Shortchange Crumbling Infrastructure, Undermine Existing Public Transit and Rail Initiatives

Updated analysis as of 1-16-09 3:30 p.m. WASHINGTON — The American Economic Recovery and Reinvestment proposal coming out of the House Appropriations Committee today fails to move America forward in reducing our oil dependency, creating opportunity for all Americans, and making us competitive for the 21st Century economy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:20:47

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20Jan09Old formula no longer works-Karim Raslan By mindspring Categories: Elections Watch, Politically Incorrect and Politicians Karim Raslan has probably given the most accurate explanation of why BN lost Kuala Terengganu. I have reproduced the article that appeared in the Star today, in its entirety below [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 01:56:43

Indian Maoists: Impact of Global Economic Crisis

This article appeared in People’s Truth Bulletin No. 4. It was originally titled “Present Financial Crisis & the Impending Great Depression”.Present Financial Crisis & the Impending Great Depressionby ArvindIndia is one of the four exemplary emerging markets that were cited by neo-liberal imperialism as proof that global capitalism was the road [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:09:01

DrumBeat: January 16, 2009

Venezuela Says $70 Oil Needed to Maintain Investments (Bloomberg) -- Oil prices need to rise to about $70 a barrel to sustain investment in fields and avoid shortages, Venezuelan Energy and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said. The South American country is discussing prices with other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:53:03

Army Major Pleads Guilty to Bribery Scheme Involving Iraq Contracts

A major in the U.S. Army Reserve pleaded guilty Tuesday for her role in two bribery schemes involving U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) contracts at Camp Victory, Iraq, the Department of Justice announced in a news release. Theresa ... motorcycle, in return for conveying sensitive information and fraudulently awarding contracts to Raman. Upon [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 08:00:00

THE CONTRACTING OUT CRISIS AT THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY…replacing unionized civil servant architects and engineers with non union consultants causes serious problems with public housing project construction and renovation work

from CITY LIMITS: AUDIT: NYCHA CAPITAL PROGRAM IN TROUBLEAn internal report by the inspector general over the Housing Authority says management lapses and cost overruns will severely curtail plans to repair the city’s aging stock of public ... s in-house construction management team that normally oversees jobs. NYCHA was attempting to improve [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 04:04:00

Iraqi forces develop engineering capabilities

8th Division ILAV Badger with claw on October 20, 2008. Photo courtesy of DVIDS ... . There are two major groupings of engineering units. Construction engineers build things, like bridges ... on construction, although they do build obstacles and minefields. Their primary focus is on clearing enemy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 16:25:48

How to invest in infrastructure spending

There has been a lot of talk recently that the one way we can get out of this severe recession would be to put people to work, ... is just about everything around us, including roads, bridges, schools, buildings, mass transit, water projects [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 19:19:39

Legal tip 30. You do not need to renew your 57/68 Bank Guarantee. They do not expire.

Bank Guarantee The Aval Bancario (Bank Guarantee) or Insurance Contract were both established by a 1968 Law to protect buyers in off plan ... when the construction doesn't start or doesn't finish in the agreed time.They also need to open ... ) and have it expressly written in the contract. Art. 2.- In those contracts where the parties agree on anticipated [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 12:42:10

Avimor’s timeline

Avimor’s timeline by Randy Stapilus under Idaho. We’ve been wondering about how the string of mega-developments around Boise, ... , with about 60 multifamily units such as lofts. 75,000: Square footage of commercial and community space ... with families living therein. One home is under construction for a family. Another pre-sold home [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 01:59:32

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