Thoughts on construction law from Christopher G. Hill, Virginia construction lawyer, LEED AP, mediator, and member of the Virginia Legal Elite in Construction Law

Category Archives: Business of Construction

Navigating Complex Preliminary Notice Requirements

Originally posted 2016-02-26 09:00:17. For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Musings, we welcome back a good friend, Scott Wolfe. Scott is the founder of Levelset, a cloud-based platform that gives construction industry participants control over their financial risk and payment processes. The Levelset platform manages the mechanics lien compliance process for all parties

Boots on the Ground- A Great Way to Learn and Help Construction Clients

Originally posted 2014-11-03 13:21:40. This past week, I attended the Construction Law and Public Contracts seminar in Charlottesville, VA and also a breakfast meeting of the Richmond chapter of the Associated General Contractors of Virginia.  Reflecting on this past week, I realized that my membership and participation in both of these great organizations (I am

What Contractors Can Learn from Smurfit and Quimonda

Originally posted 2016-11-24 10:01:00. Image via Wikipedia It will come as no shock to you that the economy has put a hit on the construction industry. Left and right we hear about developers and contractors hitting the skids, both through bankruptcy and otherwise. Personally, I take the view that the construction industry will end up

Keep Your Construction Claims Alive in Crazy Economic Times

Originally posted 2020-04-06 09:00:29. Coronavirus is dominating the news.  Construction in Virginia is facing what is at best an uncertain future and at worst a series of large scale shutdowns due to COVID-19.  The number of cases seem to grow almost exponentially on a daily basis while states and the federal government try and patch

PSA: Virginia House Passes Pay-if-Paid Ban for Construction Contracts (UPDATED)

In a move that was much anticipated, the Virginia senate recently passed legislation barring straight pay-if-paid clauses in construction contracts between General Contractors and Subcontractors.  SB550 effectively nullifies, for both private and public construction contracts, the “condition precedent” pay-if-paid clauses that are sometimes the bane of a subcontractor’s existence.  The Virginia House of Delegates passed