January 2012

China constructs a 30 story apartment building in 15 days.  Looks like most of the components were made in advance, but still, this is pretty amazing. 

15 days to construct and, in Hawaii, 10 years of potential construction defect liability. . .

For many years, different building standards have applied in different counties in Hawaii despite somewhat similar building conditions throughout the State.  According to the Building Code Council (http://hawaii.gov/dags/bcc), the last time the counties were in sync was in 1996 under the 1991 Uniform Building Code.  In large part, discrepancies resulted because the counties…

The Ohio Court of Appeals upheld the trial court's affirmation of the Columbus Regional Airport Authority ("Airport") rejection of the bid of a contractor the Airport found was non-responsible.  The current case cite is 2012_Ohio_App_LEXIS_14 and it can be found here. 

Glidepath, LLC submitted a bid for construction of two buildings to be located behind the main terminal at …

KITV reports the City is seeking to move away from construction awards to the lowest responsible bidder, to a more subjective selection process that takes into account the bidder's past performance.

Contractors and others in the industry may recall that about ten years ago, the State experimented with Performance Information Procurement System ( ("PIPS"), a data…