Skip to content Follow: RSS Twitter Construction Law in North Carolina A blog for architects, engineers, designers, & other construction professionals Home Contact Resources Blogroll contracts damages green design law notes lien issues tips Tags attorney , bonds , change , construction , damages , payment issues Tues Tip: Check out the new AIA Bond forms by MelissaBrumback on January 25, 2011 Have you seen the 2010 AIA 312 Payment Bond Form?  Of particular note: There is a new section (7.3) The new Section 16.1 Thoughts about the new Form versus the old Form? MORE >>

We feel for the folks in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C. who will have to spend time and money re-building their homes and businesses and getting their lives back on track. At Proven.com we are saddened to hear the news of the destruction and damage caused by hurricane (then tropical storm) Irene this past weekend. At Proven.com we want to help. MORE >>

Me neither, until  I ran across an article on the New York Times website today whe re an interview was published with the author of, “Profits Aren’t Everything, They’re the Only Thing&# and the founder of American Management Services.  You tell business owners to forget about being likable. The abandonment of that principle is a large factor in the failure of small businesses to achieve real profitability. You say no owner should be satisfied with his business. Home » Uncategorized Fire Your Relatives. Scare Your Employees. Or do they? MORE >>

I’m trained as a journalist to be a little skeptical about businesses which spend millions on good deeds, then offer to pay the travel costs to an awards program recognizing the winners.  The journalistic ideal — separating the business end of the publishing enterprise from independently seeking out the truth and writing the stories that need to be written, regardless of economic or advertiser influence, is rather hard to apply with absolute purity when I happen to be the “boss” for the advertising sales representatives as well as the writers/editors.  MORE >>

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