Construction Payment Blog

Last week, ENR.com published an article about legal problems mounting for The Aspire Group of Ohio, a prime contractor selected to head a $12.5 million renovation project at the Dayton VA...

Dean Kaplan of the Kaplan Group writes a column on InsideARM.com, and he recently posted on a topic that is especially familiar to controllers and credit managers int eh construction...

Construction Market Growing – But Credit Policies Still Tight The construction industry as a whole seems to have stabilized, and appears to be poised for moderate growth in 2013 –...

The difference between a struggling construction business and a successful one often boils down to good accounts receivable management. It can take a long time to get paid in construction...

There are many ways to classify the different types of construction: by sector, owner, occupancy, and fire resistance. All of these different categories give important information about the kind of...

How do you spell mechanic’s lien?  Is it “mechanics lien,” “mechanic’s lien,” “mechanics’ lien,” or “mechanical lien?”  And is it even any of these variations, or is it a construction...

Bond claims, like mechanic’s liens, have requirements that vary from state to state.  Whether or not preliminary notice is required, who must receive preliminary notice or the claim itself, and...

Yesterday we published a massive post about California’s preliminary notice requirements when work is commissioned by a tenant. The article mainly addressed whether a party who contracted directly with a...

The Pennsylvania Contractor and Subcontractor Payment Act 73 P.S. Sec. 501 et seq., was passed in 1994 to provide contractors and subcontractors additional protection when unpaid for their services on construction...

Vincent Pallaci gives great words of wisdom and warning to anyone thinking about challenging a New York mechanics lien. Challenging a mechanics lien in New York is a difficult task....