By Frank Elmore on May 18, 2016 | Best Practices

Does your company have a written policy that covers who can sign for certified or restricted mail? How about for a FedEx© or UPS© package? If not, you may want to consider implementing a written Incoming Mail and Express Shipment Policy (IMESP). The South & North Carolina state and federal court rules and statues allow… Read more

By Leslie Sullivan on May 16, 2016 | Public Procurement

When I learned Chapter 6 in the Office of State Engineer’s Manual for the Planning and Execution of State Permanent Improvements Part II went from 20 pages in the 2011 edition to 17 pages in the 2015 edition, I expected to see significant changes between the two editions. However, the changes are only skin deep,… Read more

By Bryan Kelley on May 12, 2016 | Government Regulations

Construction Dive has an interesting article up this morning regarding the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s new rule regarding the electronic transmission of injury and illness data for all construction industry employees with 20 employees or more.  The rule goes into effect on August 10, 2016, and the data reported will be made available to… Read more

By Leslie Sullivan on May 11, 2016 | Public Procurement

How many of you have had projects where there are quite a few smaller change order requests but the architect wants to wait until the end of the project to write one big change order to cover everything at once? (Yeah, we all know it is not supposed to be done that way, but it… Read more

By Leslie Sullivan on May 9, 2016 | Public Procurement

The State Engineer has to approve the demolition of any state-owned building or other improvement to real property. In 2011, the OSE Manual required the agency to provide four pieces of information when the agency requests approval for demolition. In the 2015 OSE Manual update, the necessary information has doubled. Previously the agency had to… Read more