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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
- 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
- Preventing and Managing the Risk of Subcontractor Default - A Best Practices Checklist (NEW)
- Managing Supplier Direct Agreements
- What To Do When Your Switchgear Is Lost in the Mail
- The Outer Bounds of Limitations of Liability and Damage Limit Provisions in Construction Contracts
- Contractual Clauses and Considerations for Calculating Damages for Claims Related to COVID
- Navigating Uninsured Indemnity Agreements
- The ‘New Reality' of Design Responsibility for Contractors and Subcontractors and Common Sense Recommendations
- Design Delegation: Legal Definitions, Practical Considerations and the Need for Clarity
- Joint Checks: Where and How Joint Check Arrangements Can Go Awry
Dispute Resolution
- Achieving ADR Success: What We Want in Construction Mediation and Arbitration
- The Best Evidence: The Real Time Project Record
- Mediation Uncompromised: Mastering The Art of Changing Minds & Influencing Opinions
- Managing ESI Risks Costs and Burdens
- 10 Risk Management Maxims that Will Change Your Approach to Project Delivery
- Taming the Multi-Party Construction Dispute in Mediation)
- Planned Early Dispute Resolution: The Why and the How
Insurance
- Navigating Insurance Coverage for Accident-Related Project Delay
- Survey of Construction-Insurance Case Law: Recent Court Opinions Impacting Construction-Risk Field
- Essential Issues in Builders Risk: Examining the Critical Modern Strategies That Drive a Successful Product
- Recent Insurance Coverage Decisions Impacting Construction Risk
- Controlled Insurance Gotchas
- Recent Court Rulings On Builders Risk Insurance Claims
- 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
Protocols & Procedures
- Preventing and Managing the Risk of a Subcontractor Default - A Best Practices Checklist (NEW)
- Managing ESI Risks Costs and Burdens
Why The Construction Industry Is Being Impacted By Cyberattacks, And What To Do About It - 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
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 (Jan. 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).