Capitol Connection Q&A for Contractors - Week of May 25, 2015
By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
Being in the right place is one secret to success, knowing when it’s the right time is a little trickier. While ‘breaking up’ is hard to do, for a JV it’s also fatal. An eager bidder has to put the ‘brakes’ on his ambitious plans ‘post’ haste! …
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Call Before You Dig, Dial 811!
The DIRT on CA's Excavation Incident Reporting System
It's not a pretty sounding acronym – DIRT – but it is an important one for licensed contractors or anyone else who digs into the ground during a construction project. DIRT stands for Damage Information Reporting Tool, and it's a mandatory reporting system for anyone who causes damage during an underground dig or comes close to having an incident.
Capitol Connection Q&A for Contractors - Week of May 18, 2015
By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
It took years to become contractor’s law but the popularity of the LLC has soared among California firms. We have answers for LLC’s and clarify a contractor’s question about reciprocity. We’ve helped people through the application process for more than 25 years but get called out on the ‘carpet’ for the first time by an applicant’s question…
Duty Of Care?
By Kenneth S. Grossbart
Abdulaziz, Grossbart & Rudman
The case of Beacon Residential Community Association v. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP was decided in July of 2014. The issue this decision discusses is whether or not design professionals (architects, engineers, and other design professionals) owe a duty of care to home owners associations.