Originally posted 2016-04-19 10:50:36. After a long (for me) hiatus due to Spring Break with my wonderful family followed by a crazy last two weeks for both personal and business reasons, I’m back and ready to muse again. This week’s “musings” concern a topic that arises often in construction contracts and construction dispute resolution. The […]
Please Join Me at the Boar’s Head for Some Construction Law Fun
On November 2nd and 3rd, 2018, Virginia CLE will be putting on the 39th Annual Construction Law and Public Contracts Seminar. I’ve recommended this seminar and given a “post mortem” on it on multiple occasions here at Musings and want to recommend it again. If you, like me, are a construction attorney that practices in […]
Green Building, Litigation and Risk
Originally posted 2010-12-03 09:00:25. Green Building is all the rage. From the latest version of LEED, LEED 3.0, to discussions of “LEEDigation.” Every level of government wants in on the latest in sustainability. Musings discussed this trend in prior posts relating to Virginia and “green” building and Virginia Business Magazine chimed in as well. This […]
Where Standing, Mechanic’s Liens, and Bankruptcy Collide
I have spoken often about mechanic’s liens and the implications of such liens as they relate to bankruptcy here at Construction Law Musings. A recent case out of Loudoun County, Virginia added another wrinkle to this discussion, that of standing and what happens on conveyance of the property and what interest in the property is […]
Pay If Paid, Pay Attention Subs
Originally posted 2010-08-31 10:09:40. Recently, we all had yet another reminder that the Virginia Courts will strictly construe even the strictest of payment conditions. In the W. O. Grubb Steel Erection Co. v. 515 Granby, LLC case (full text of opinion in .pdf here), Suburban Grading and Utilities found this out in spades, much to […]