“This article describes some of the standard mediation approaches, and also discusses some mediation techniques that are not frequently used, but can be very helpful resolving disputes in the right situations.”
I found this to be very helpful in clearing up a couple of questions I had.
We don’t have any clients that are eligible for this grant, but FYI anyway.
I hate this kind of talk, because I believe it is a real possibility. It has the same feel of reality that the murmers of disaster had a few years back regarding the housing industry. Damn government…..I’ll be right back. There’s a couple of brown shirted gentlemen knocking at my door.
From the article, one company reports some impressive results from their lean construction program.
“To drive home the importance of lean construction practices in project delivery as well as jobsite safety, Turner Construction Co. paused its 45,000-person staff and subcontractor workforce in North America for 30-minute to one-hour tutorials, delivered company-wide on Sept. 4 to all shifts. This year’s “safety stand-down” is the eighth annual post-Labor Day event the contractor has held to push the message of job safety.”
“Repairing, replacing and rebuilding 13,000 miles of aging and brittle water and sewage pipes and the treatment plants they connect to could cost Miami-Dade County more than $12 billion over the next 15 years.” I don’t know if “staggering” is big enough a word to attach to $12 billion. In today’s reality of a federal government spending $3.7 trillion, and borrowing $1.4 trillion of it (that’s 38%, folks), what’s a little $12 billion amongst friends? Well, guess what, we can’t lend it to ourselves like the Fed does, nor can we print it. The article‘s “good news” that it will infuse the local economy ignores the fact that the $12 billion will come out of the economy in the form of taxes. Talk about voodoo economics.
Here‘s a nice compendium of economic news affecting the construction industry, especially if you like to get lost in the numbers. And what construction industry professional doesn’t like getting lost in the numbers? Cough cough. Seriously, it’s the best I’ve ever seem.
This whole story is a GC’s worst nightmare. I was lead auditor on four construction projects in Vegas by this owner while the City Center project was beginning and under construction. Frankly, the timing of this project was atrocious. Another of my audit clients in Vegas was taking a beating on one of its residential towers while this project was beginning. An auditor from one of the Big Four informed me that the owner was going to finance 50% of the project with sales. Me and my staff had a good laugh at that.
This article interests me because I’ve spent a lot of time auditing large malls. I’ve even had some experience auditing a Simon property. This article points to luxury outlet malls as the strongest performers in the market, for which it gives several reasons. I think we’ve seen that here in south Florida. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more construction work coming from this niche.
We’re fighting the trend. “Florida, California, Arizona and Nevada rounded out the top five states with the highest foreclosure rates in August.” The rest of the country is trending downward.
We’ve turned a previous post into an article. I can’t emphasize enough how important I believe this information is. I’ve seen too good companies go belly up for the silliest of reasons, many of which were preventable. Please be forewarned.
