By Scott Wolfe Jr
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Trackbacks- 29 States Add Construction Jobs Between March and April: The Associated General Contractors of America released its report on the rise/fall of construction jobs around the country for the most recently reported month, and there is a mixture of good news and bad news (depending on where you are). 29 states splits the country directly in half, with some folks having a good month and some folks not. The New Orleans City Business Blog chimed in to pass along word that Louisiana lost jobs during the period. Washington and Oregon gained jobs in the period, barely. .01% and .02% respectively.
- I subscribed to a new blog this week, Government Contracts Legal Forum, recently launched by Crowell Moring and focusing on….government contracting law. Involved with this blog is our friend in green building law, Chris Cheatham, who works at Crowell Moring and will be posting on the new blog from time to time. Chris runs the Green Building Law Update blog. One of his firsts posts on the new blog points out an Obama Executive Order that will require more green building projects.
- New Lead Based Paint, Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule is causing contractors to panic, as per Andrea Goldman’s Massachusetts Builders Law Blog. Andrea has posted a great deal about the new RRP rules, and if you deal with lead-based paint in any way or you renovate homes or buildings with lead-based paint, you will want to pay attention to these important changes from the EPA.
- Louisiana Construction Law Blog on Blogspot discusses “Initial Decision Makers” in construction projects. While IDMs have been around for a while, there really became popular when the AIA incorporated the concept into its contract documents a few years ago. This post from our friends up in Shreveport, Louisiana, offers a great primer on the concept.
Interested in more articles and blog posts around the web on construction law? You can check out other articles I’ve shared over the past week on my Google Reader Shared Items Feed.
