Ask potential contractors about their familiarity and experience with energy efficiency, being environmentally responsible, and providing healthy building practices and materials. Home About Us Your Authors Our Services Resources Blog Directory Avvo Legal Guides Avvo Answers Forms & Documents Webinars Other Publications Contact Us Speaking Engagements Press Contacts Apr 2011 04 Scott Wolfe Jr 0 Tips For Hiring A Residential Contractor We’re happy to hear from Alicia Lagarde as a guest blogger on the Monitor this week. Visit her website at [link] , and her blog at [link]. MORE >>

Just from my own personal experience in the legal profession, I can see the storm’s impact lingering as the subject of on-going litigation. Home About Us Your Authors Our Services Resources Blog Directory Avvo Legal Guides Avvo Answers Forms & Documents Webinars Other Publications Contact Us Speaking Engagements Press Contacts Aug 2010 28 Scott Wolfe Jr 0 Remembering Katrina: Stones Taught Me To Fly Hurricane Katrina delayed my bar results, destroyed my house and changed my plans. lot of our family, friends and colleagues have had a very difficult half-decade. MORE >>

Description of Services, Experience and Qualifications Collaborative Construction Resources, LLC helps clients achieve Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) in 3D™. Built industry stakeholders interested in the intelligent and effective use of integrated agreements, building information modeling (BIM), and lean construction techniques find IPD in 3D™ enables visualization and achievement of integrated decisions, design and delivery on their projects. Deployment of IPD & BIM saves time and money while increasing quality. This produces orphaned BIM that adds little value. James L. James L. MORE >>

IPD was all the rage back in 2007 and 2008. Some IPD proponents argue that IPD can improve the entire owning and operating experience, and while I think that is true, for the owner, emphasizing the need to change delivery methods for construction-phase advantages may not be a compelling argument, because for the owner, conventional construction is “tried and true.” Sutter Health lead the way in California, ConsensuDOCS and the AIA delivered new generation form agreements to facilitate adoption and use of integrated agreements on projects and then the entire effort hit a wall. MORE >>

Andrew began the transition from scaffolder to scaffold designer in 2008 and has now gained experience of a wide range of design work, as well as providing valuable practical insights through his first-hand knowledge of scaffold erection. In 2008 I decided that I should try to find a career that has more longevity and not put my body under the continuous physical strains that scaffolding does. In my opinion you have to forget what you think you know because your ‘say-so’ or experience doesn’t actually mean anything if the scaffold cannot be proven (in calculation). MORE >>