Category: Legal

January 21, 2022

A New York construction industry advisory group, created under a law Gov. Kathy Hochul signed in December, will study and recommend adjustments to state public contracting to address damages incurred by contractors, subcontractors and others because of payment delays on […]

January 18, 2022

The DOJ’s resolution with Hunt comes less than a month after Malvern, Pennsylvania-based Balfour Beatty Communities (BBC), the U.S subsidiary of Balfour Beatty and one of the country’s largest providers of privatized military housing, pleaded guilty to one count of […]

January 14, 2022

As several of the justices hinted during oral arguments on Jan. 8, the issue of whether to stay OSHA’s ETS came down to the agency’s statutory authority granted to it under the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Ultimately, the majority […]

January 13, 2022

A 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has placed a stay on the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing mandate for employers with 100 employees or more, including those in the construction sector. All justices appointed by […]

January 7, 2022

A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of the Biden Administration’s legal authority to implement a COVID-19 vaccination-or test mandate with the depth and breadth of the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s emergency temporary standard, as they […]

January 4, 2022

A new state law in New York promotes low-embodied-carbon concrete for public projects, and activists are hoping to get another bill passed this year that will push it further to meet carbon emissions goals. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the bill, […]

December 21, 2021

Scott told Construction Dive that the idea came out of cooperation between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the ASCE following the Joplin tornado disaster in 2011, which killed 161 people along a 6-mile path and caused […]

December 10, 2021

A Massachusetts district attorney indicted Atlantic Coast Utilities, along with its owner, Laurence Moloney, and an employee, Konstantinos Kollias, for perjury on Nov. 30. The Wayland, Massachusetts-based contractor allegedly lied on Mattocks-Higgins Affidavits of Workplace Safety, according to a press […]

December 9, 2021

Contractors and unions expressed skepticism about the enforcement of New York City’s vaccine mandate on all private-sector workers. The announcement on Dec. 6 applies to employees working in person in New York City, and will go into effect Dec. 27, […]

December 9, 2021

A new presidential executive order that calls for major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from federal buildings and facilities could have sweeping impacts for construction and design firms that do business for the federal government. President Joe Biden’s Dec. 8 […]