Tag: legal
Building for Good Launches National Platform
Boston – As charitable organizations work to improve inadequate facilities or build new ones, legal bills may hold them back from their mission. Building for Good, Inc. (B4G), a national, web-based platform linking nonprofits and charities with skilled, volunteer construction lawyers, launched this month in Massachusetts, Florida, New Jersey, and Minnesota. B4G will help organizations in […]
The Massachusetts Dig Safe Law: How to Protect Your Company
By Rodney Ames In theory, the Massachusetts Dig Safe law is comprised of straightforward regulations to promote safe excavation on construction projects in the commonwealth. In practice, however, many construction projects pose challenges to navigating the Dig Safe law without consequence. The most often disputed and fact-intensive violation is for excavation work that “was not […]
Robinson+Cole Forms Sustainability Cross-Practice Team
Hartford, CT – Robinson+Cole recently announced that lawyers from a variety of its practice areas have formally come together to form an interdisciplinary sustainability group. Comprised of lawyers with deep experience and a history of collaborating to handle sustainability issues related to energy, environmental, tax, intellectual property, real estate, finance, mergers and acquisitions, and construction […]
BLF&R Office Opens in Plymouth
Plymouth, MA – Brown Lindquist Fenuccio & Raber Architects, Inc. (BLF&R) of Yarmouthport, is expanding its services to the South Shore with the opening of a new satellite office in Plymouth, according to Rick Fenuccio, president of the firm. The 45-year-old company provides architectural and consulting services to a wide range of commercial, residential, multifamily, […]
Beware of Shifting Design Risk
by Michael P. Sams It is important for contractors to understand that unless they are intending to take on design risk, they (and we) really need to carefully review proposed contracts to weed out provisions that potentially shift design risk to the contractor. Unless a design-build delivery method is intended, removing the design risk is imperative […]
