The Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program was created under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) with a $1.5 billion dollar multi-modal discretionary grant program. It was designed to provide support for innovative transportation projects of national, regional, and local significance. The TIGER program included projects that were often difficult to fund under
Reading Between the Lines: Wall Street’s View of Health Care Industry in 2011
Earlier today, I attended a special sold-out event on Wall Street’s View on Prospects for the Health Care Industry sponsored by the Nashville Health Care Council.
Moderated by Wayne Smith of Community Health Systems, the panel included the following Wall Street analysts: Chris Colley, Managing Director of medical Devices for Stephens, Inc.; Kemp Dolliver
ConsensusDOCS Releases New and Updated Construction Contract Documents
I will admit it. I am open-minded. I will try anything (…well, almost anything…) at least once. So, a few years ago when ConsensusDOCS hit the market, I was happy to take the construction documents for a spin … and I was even happier to learn that ConsensusDOCS offered a metered account that allowed
Digital Signatures in Construction Contracts: Are They As Good As the Real Thing?
A few months ago, I did a webinar on project documentation. At the end of the webinar, one of the participants asked, Are digital signatures as good as hard copy signatures?
I addressed this exact question in a feature article that I wrote for ABC’s Construction Executive magazine on the paperless construction project.
Collaborative Construction: Using Technology and Construction Apps for Project Management
I recently discovered that eight out of ten of the top key word searches on this site over the past few months included variations of the following words: construction, iPad, technology and apps. The searches were referred primarily to a blog post I did about my favorite apps for the construction
Guest Post: Bankruptcy Proofing Lessons
Today’s guest post is by fellow Stites attorney Bob Goodrich, Jr., who has been designated by the American Bankruptcy Board of Certification and the State of Tennessee as a specialist in business bankruptcy. For more then 25 years, Bob has represented creditors, creditors’ committees, landlords, and other interested parties in bankruptcy and insolvency related
Paper to Paperless on the Modern Construction Project
In a recent article that I wrote for ABC’s Construction Executive magazine, I shared some experiences and lessons learned from a paperless project. The construction industry needs to consider that “paperless” involves more than simply a different form of documentation, but also a debate about whether the benefits of a paperless endeavor outweigh the
An Explanation of the Proposed (and Unofficial) LEED 2012 Requirements and Credits
In what has been unofficially called LEED 2012, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) opened the first public comment period from November 8, 2010 to January 14, 2011 for the next version of the LEED rating system. Yes, that means the first public comment period closes this Friday.
According to the USGBC’s LEED Rating Development page
Green Roof Benefits and Risks: Music City Center in Nashville May Have Both
When asked about potential cost overruns on the Music City Center almost year ago, the Center’s representative Larry Atema stated bluntly, "There aren’t going to be any." True to that commitment, Anne Paine of the Tennessean reported this past weekend that the Center’s "green roof has grown less green."
According to the article
From Streets to Stardom: The Role of Urgency in Your Construction Business Development
If you’ve read a newspaper, scrolled through a blog, or watched the television over the past 48 hours, you should know about the miracle story of Ted Williams. Dubbed "the homeless man with a velvety voice," Williams was discovered on the streets of Ohio looking for work. Already he has received some lucrative