In a recent United States District Court for the District of Maryland decision, U.S. ex rel. Birckhead Electric, Inc. v. James W. Ancel, Inc...

Two recent cases dealing with New Jersey law examine from different points of view the implications that ensue as a result of a general contractor’s utilization of a subcontractor’s bid price when the general contractor submits its bid for the overall work to the owner.

As a partner in Peckar & Abramson's New Jersey and New York offices, Levi W. Barrett spends a lot of his time pondering legal risk within the construction trades.

Since the tariffs on steel and the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the construction industry has been reeling from the impact of material shortages and price increases...

The Texas courts have long had a love/hate relationship with noncompete agreements. For some time, such restrictions were considered unenforceable until the legislature stepped in four decades ago.

There are an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in America, making up about 5 percent of the workforce. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, illegal immigrants constitute 14 percent of construction workers.

On December 7, 2022, the Appellate Division affirmed the New Jersey Superior Court decision in Jersey Precast v. Tricon Enterprises, Inc. et al., finding that the "pay-if-paid" clause....

Imagine your firm is the construction manager on a multi-million-dollar project. At the end of the project you are five million dollars out-of-pocket.

The California Supreme Court recently issued two important decisions reinterpreting and limiting the historically broad application of California's prevailing wage law: Mendoza v. Fonseca McElroy Griding Co.

Following the Department of Labor’s 2023 Davis-Bacon rule changes, federal construction contractors faced a pressing question: not whether paying prevailing wages is required, but how far those obligations could extend.

The Boards of Contract Appeals, Court of Federal Claims, and the Federal Circuit have long held that the elements of a claim under the Contract Disputes Act ("CDA") to be jurisdictional.

The Trump administration's imposition of new tariffs is anticipated to have large-scale effects on costs in the construction industry.

This Alert will provide an overview of the current status of the Federal Funding Freeze and five key steps that can be taken in preparation for what may come.

Federal contractors, subcontractors and grantees have until April 21, 2025, to comply with President Trump's Executive Order ("EO") 14173 entitled "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity."

With the on-going shortage of construction workers in the industry and other factors ranging from weather to procurement problems...

Social media has significantly impacted all facets of society, especially the way people communicate.

Untimely payment by the owner for contract work and additional work on construction projects can place an unfair financial burden on contractors and subcontractors. Most states have attempted to eliminate...

Most, if not all, construction contracts contain a provision for "retainage." The origin and concept of retainage dates back to the railroad boom that embraced Great Britain in the 1840s.

When bidding a project, subsurface or latent site conditions that are not immediately apparent can massively impact the costs of performance to general contractors.

For centuries the ability to construct sophisticated structures has been the yardstick for measuring civilizations.