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Evergreen Tim Newcomb is a newspaper and magazine journalist based in Western Washington, covering design and construction in buildings and transportation around the Northwest. |
Opinions
| 12/01/10 | Haste Makes Waste With Construction Contract Awards When project funding finally comes through, owners and contractors alike are eager for shovels to dig in. Owners resist what they see as time-consuming contract negotiations, and contractors fear that resisting unreasonable contract terms will result in the work being awarded to a competitor. |
| 11/04/10 | To Disclose, or Not to Disclose: When Does Evidence Become “Credible?” In theory, this language appears straightforward and easy to follow. In practice, however, it can be difficult to determine whether a violation has occurred and whether the evidence of such violation is “credible.” |
| 11/04/10 | Legal Column: Haste Makes Waste with Construction Contract Awards When project funding finally comes through, owners and contractors alike are eager for shovels to dig in. |
| 08/08/10 | Leveraging Benefits of Integrated Project Delivery Improved with Cutting Edge Contracts Integrated Project Delivery is uncharted waters for lawyers, creating an environment ripe for creative contract drafting. |
| 07/28/10 | Updating Energy Performance in Existing Building Stock With rising energy prices and climate change concerns, building performance has jumped to the top of our aging buildings’ to-do list. |
| 04/26/10 | Finding Green Dollars in the Pacific Northwest Tight construction budgets make it difficult to overcome first cost increases even when coupled with reasonable payback periods. |
| 03/01/10 | Seven Critical Social Media Guidelines for Business Success It may seem that everywhere you turn there is some sort of breaking news about social media. By now, you or your company may have even gotten involved in some capacity. But to what end? |
| 01/01/10 | With Existing Inventories Selling Out,Expect a Return to Pre-Sales The residential real estate market is making gains as sales increase in many areas. We have witnessed this as we have sold out of our finished home inventory in several communities and we are starting to see many of our communities enter into presale agreements to build homes for delivery in 2010. |
| 12/01/09 | Top 10 Things Contractors Should Know About Climate Change The U.S. Congress is considering whether to enact a “cap and trade” program that would enable the federal government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). |
| 11/01/09 | Ten Minutes With Conservation Goals Continue to Push HVAC Designers What is the most interestingsustainable element you’veinstalled in a building? |
| 07/01/09 | WSDOT/LTD/OCD Olympia — Washington state will deliver more highway projects with federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds than first envisioned, because of the recent trend toward lower construction bids. |
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