For those ready to bring their home improvement ideas to life, hiring a general contractor is an eventual inevitability. Fittingly, you can think of a general contractor as, well, a general. By ...

Amid the dust and noise of a construction site, there’s a push and pull between two competing agendas: that of the project manager and that of the general contractor. Those competing agendas can lead ...

The federal government’s effort in mobilizing more government contractors in recent years to help the nation move forward from the COVID-19 pandemic sets a favorable precedent for the professionals in ...

Because a general contractor is generally in charge of the entirety of a construction project, it is often assumed, and alleged in lawsuits, that the general contractor is legally responsible for the ...

In new-construction and renovation projects, the general contractor or GC is the point person for the work who supervises and hires the specialty contractors who are needed. The general contractor, ...

Unless a contract specifically provides otherwise, an owner is not a third-party beneficiary of a standard contract between a general contractor and a subcontractor. This principle is illustrated in ...