Hot Topic Resource Library

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Claims || Compliance || Contract Risk Management || Crisis Response & Communication || Dispute Resolution || Insurance || Labor & HR || Protocols & Procedures || Reports (AGC/FMI) || Surety  

CLE (Continuing Legal Education) Papers

Check out these substantive research papers on top business challenges facing today’s construction firms, as presented by leading experts at AGC’s annual Surety Bonding and Construction Risk Management Conference.

Claims

• A Deep Dive into Damages:  Show Me the Money! (January 2025)
• Decoding the Mystery of Productivity Claims (June 2021)
• How to Avoid and Resolve Disputes over Delays and Disruptions (August 2017)

Compliance

• Navigating the Build America Act in 2024: Results, Pitfalls and Compliance Essentials for Contractors (January 2024) 
• Expanded Requirements for Contractors on IIJA and IRA Projects (January 2023) 
• Recent Construction Risk Issues and Cases and Common Sense Recommendations (June 2021) 
• Federal Fraud Investigations Update: Some Construction and Surety Industry Hotspots (June 2021)

Contract Risk Management

• Megaproject Risks and Contractual Mitigation Strategies (January 2025)
• Not the Usual Suspects: The Other Contract Provisions that Impede Risk Transfer (January 2025)
• Preventing and Managing the Risk of Subcontractor Default - A Best Practices Checklist (NEW) (June 2024)
• Managing Supplier Direct Agreements (June 2024) 
• What To Do When Your Switchgear Is Lost in the Mail (January 2023)  
• The Outer Bounds of Limitations of Liability and Damage Limit Provisions in Construction Contracts (January 2022) 
• Contractual Clauses and Considerations for Calculating Damages for Claims Related to COVID (January 2022) 
• Navigating Uninsured Indemnity Agreements (January 2020) 
• The ‘New Reality' of Design Responsibility for Contractors and Subcontractors and Common Sense Recommendations (January 2020)
• Design Delegation: Legal Definitions, Practical Considerations and the Need for Clarity (January 2019)
• Joint Checks: Where and How Joint Check Arrangements Can Go Awry (January 2019)

Dispute Resolution

• Achieving ADR Success: What We Want in Construction Mediation and Arbitration (July 2024) 
• The Best Evidence: The Real Time Project Record (January 2024) 
• Mediation Uncompromised: Mastering The Art of Changing Minds & Influencing Opinions (January 2024)  
• Managing ESI Risks Costs and Burdens (January 2023)
• 10 Risk Management Maxims that Will Change Your Approach to Project Delivery (January 2022) 
• Taming the Multi-Party Construction Dispute in Mediation (January 2022) 
• Planned Early Dispute Resolution: The Why and the How

Insurance

• Times are Tough Now, Just Getting Tougher: Will CGL and Builders Risk Cover Me?  (January 2025)
• Builders Risk Insurance – Whose line is it anyway?  (January 2025)
• The Wonderful World of Wrap-Ups: OCIPs versus CCIPs  (January 2025) 
• Case Study: Vertical Construction Project's Complex Risk Management and Insurance Journey  (January 2025)
• Measure Once, Cuss Twice: Navigating the Faulty Workmanship Exclusion to Maximize Builder’s Risk Recovery (January 2025) 
• Navigating Insurance Coverage for Accident-Related Project Delay (January 2024) 
• Survey of Construction-Insurance Case Law: Recent Court Opinions Impacting Construction-Risk Field (January 2024) 
• Essential Issues in Builders Risk: Examining the Critical Modern Strategies That Drive a Successful Product (January 2024)  
• Recent Insurance Coverage Decisions Impacting Construction Risk (January 2023)
• Controlled Insurance Gotchas (January 2023)
• Recent Court Rulings On Builders Risk Insurance Claims (January 2022) 
• Working with OCIPs: Practical and Technical Strategies for Building an Effective Program
• Changes in the Landscape for Captive Insurance: Court Cases, Tax Reform & Recent IRS Guidance  
• Top 2018 Insurance Coverage Decisions Impacting General Contractors and Construction Managers (January 2019)

Protocols & Procedures

• Preventing and Managing the Risk of a Subcontractor Default - A Best Practices Checklist (NEW) (June 2024)
• Managing ESI Risks Costs and Burdens  
  Why The Construction Industry Is Being Impacted By Cyberattacks, And What To Do About It (January 2021) 
• Basic Training – Operational Risk Management Fundamentals: Teacher's Edition and PowerPoint  
• Workplace Drug Use: New Problems and Employment Challenges 
• Managing The Risk of Mold in the Construction of Buildings (May 2023) 

Surety

• Success with Surety Bond Claims (January 2023) 
• Meeting Different Expectations: A Consensus Approach to Bonding (June 2021) 
• Two Short Stories Showing the Benefits to Contractors of Collaboration with Surety Claims and Legal Professionals (January 2020)

AGC/FMI Risk Management Reports

AGC of America and FMI Corporation collaborate on an annual survey of the insurable and other business risks that AGC members consider significant and the various ways that AGC members are managing these risks. Each year’s results are presented and further analyzed in a final report at AGC’s annual Surety Bonding and Construction Risk Management Conference.

• 2023 AGC/FMI Industry Survey and PowerPoint (data collected December 2022)
• 2022 AGC/FMI Industry Survey and PowerPoint (data collected December 2021)
  • AGC/FMI Whitepaper - Building Amid Uncertainty: How Risk Management Became Everyone's Job (May 2022)
• 2021 AGC/FMI Industry Survey and PowerPoint – Construction Risk Outlook (data collected December 2020)
• 2020 AGC/FMI Industry Survey and PowerPoint – Risk Study (data collected October 2019)
• 2019 AGC/FMI Industry Survey and Report – Update on the Evolving E&C Risk Environment (data collected at end 2018)
  • ENR Magazine Cover Story: Inside Jobs: Contractors Increase Use of In-House Design to Better Manage Project Demands, by Jim Parsons (April 1/8, 2019 issue)
• 2018 AGC/FMI Industry Survey and Report (data collected at end 2017)

Crisis Response & Communication Resources

AGC offers access to a wealth of resources that any construction firm can use before, during, and after any crisis situation.

Labor & HR Resources  

AGC offers access to a huge library of substantive guidance on a vast array of labor and HR topics relevant to construction employers (log in as an AGC member to view all of the resources).