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Does your general contractor have Worker's Compensation Insurance?

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

You can usually tell the quality of work your general contractor will give you by how he treats his employees. If he doesn’t take even the minimum amount of time to protect them, how much effort will he put into your house? Austin Injury board has a great how-to process on how to buy good worker’s comp insurance.

A worker’s comp policy can generally be purchased in one of two-and-a-half ways. First, the employer that has hired the employee can purchase the worker’s comp policy. In our case, if L&O purchased the insurance then the worker couldn’t sue L&O. However, that policy would not protect others. Therefore, if the person that was driving the forklift was employed by the general contractor, another subcontractor or even the property owner, then the employee would still be able to sue any of those entities.

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Setting a deadline for garage demolition

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

It’s not only important to set deadlines for contractors to get work done, it’s just as pertinent sometimes to charge a penalty if the deadline isn’t met. The city in this article had the right idea to set a 90-day deadline in which a $500 fee is extracted for every day that goes by after the deadline that the contractor doesn’t finish:

Salzmann said the fine provision has been included to emphasize the importance of getting the work completed on time.

“It is there to make sure that contractors know we need to have this done quickly, and once work is begun, we expect it to be done in a timely manner,” Salzmann said.

The 90-day completion date will be set once the contract is awarded, Salzmann said. Demolition proposals must be submitted by 2 p.m. March 12, when they will be opened at City Hall. Prospective contractors must also pay a $100 fee.

Sealed proposals are now being accepted by engineering consultant John Stinemire in his office at 15 Railroad Ave., Salzmann said.

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Female general contractor fits right in with her fellow males

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

The San Francisco Chronicle has a cool article about Marie De LaParra, a general contractor who has to weave her way through a male-dominated field. She’s the founder and owner of BMB Construction/Properties, a firm that rehabilitates faded Victorian beauties.

Now, De LaParra is branching out with an ambitious and far more complex project: developing a $3 million, 12-unit senior-housing complex in Oakland. The design, by the Oakland architectural firm AE3 Partners, will among the first green senior housing projects in the East Bay, she said.

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