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The Devil is in the Details: Scope of Work Goes Further Than Any Long-Form Contract

I recently had the pleasure of attending the Construction Owners’ Association of Alberta Best Practices 2016 Conference and was part of a...

A contractor and a subcontractor attach a schedule to a contract, a schedule with fancy details (probably a Gantt chart) and done on...

What do I do when I’m not getting paid on my project? Or, depending on your perspective: what do I do when my contractor or subcontractor...

Welcome to a new year and new challenges. In these more uncertain times with less work available for the same, or more, number of...

There are few, if any, cases in Alberta that directly answer the question: can an owner make a promise to a contractor to entice the...

Long term incentive plans are a popular mechanism to both attract and, more importantly, retain senior level personnel. Such was the...

Earthworks projects, while they may sound simple (“moving dirt”), often have many hidden land mines that threaten to throw both...

It is very common for corporate groups or joint ventures to “lend” employees from one company to another to meet certain temporary...

A company’s team of people will often have supervising levels of personnel who are, as far as upper management is concerned, responsible...

Projects often involve various different lending and security groups that sometimes (perhaps without realizing it) include the...