FROM REUTER's NEWS- Construction Defect Conference Set For Nov 19 to Feature Judges, Lawyers, Builders and Insurer's!

News From Reuters-

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Superior Court Judges Hon. Keith Davis of
San Bernardino and Hon. Stephen Sundvold of Orange County will appear on the
faculty of the "Construction Defect Litigation Update Conference" Nov. 19,
2009 at The City Club on Bunker Hill in Los Angeles.

The chairmen of the conference, attorneys Richard Glucksman of Chapman,
Glucksman, Dean, Roeb & Barger, APC of Los Angeles, and Kenneth Kasdan, Kasdan
Simonds Riley & Vaughan LLP of Irvine, Calif. and Phoenix, Ariz., assembled a
list of specialists from the building and insurance industries, as well as
from leading law firms. 

In a review of headlines posted recently by "Mealey's Litigation Report:
Construction Defects," a leading monitor of the litigation published by
LexisNexis, California cases have produced settlements in matters involving
subcontractors for $15,000 in one case and $16,500 in another, while other
cases with a broader range of parties settled for $55,000, $525,000, $632,305,
and $1.3 million. 

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Delmar Cengage Learning, Publisher of the DeWalt line of trade books, is looking for an author!

My name is Bobby Person and I work on the Building Trades team here Delmar Cengage Learning – our group specializes in publishing print and digital products for the professional construction-related markets.

We have a premier product line which is a series of books for contractors marketed under the DEWALT brand – please see www.dewalt.com/guides for more information.

I am currently looking for a new author to write a DEWALT Deck Construction Handbook. This will be a very high-profile project with tremendous sales potential.

Please let me know if you are interested in hearing more about the opportunity. Thanks!

Bobby Person

CPG Building Trades

Delmar | Cengage Learning

5 Maxwell Drive, Clifton Park, NY 12065

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New Issue of WATERPROOF! Magazine Hits The Streets

The fall issue of WATERPROOF! Magazine hit my mailbox this weekend; this issue is chock full of information. The article on "Green Decks" is especially good, many people are interested in having a green roof and this article tells you what you need to do to do it right...

Another article on Advances in Coatings, is about the new generation of spray applied waterproofing coatings that are available.

News, tradeshow information, below grade repair strategies, all are covered in the latest issue.

I recommend that you subscribe today and never miss an issue. (FCC Disclosure-I do not receive any free stuff from Waterproof! Magazine, nary a free subscription or anything...nada.

Errant Welding Sparks Condo Disaster-Entire Complex Burn Down, Suit Filed

Suit blames welders for Galveston condo fire
10/6/2009 10:52 AM By John Suayan, Galveston Bureau

GALVESTON - A Galveston homeowners' association blames two businesses for a fire that destroyed its condominium complex in June, recent court documents say.

Maravilla Homeowners' Association claims the misconduct and overall negligence of Adam's Welders and Hudak & Dawson Construction Co. led to a four-alarm fire within the Maravilla Resort Condominiums on Galveston's West End the afternoon of June 3.

"The defendants owed a legal duty to the plaintiff to exercise ordinary care," the lawsuit, filed Oct. 1 in Galveston County District Court, says.

According to the original petition, the defendants were performing construction work at the property.

It adds workers were welding handrails connected to the building, which had been almost fully rebuilt after Hurricane Ike, when some wayward sparks ignited the inferno.

A Galveston County Daily News article on June 4 reported that the blaze spread between the upper floors.

"Fire units from across Galveston County responded to the fire," the suit says

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Attention Contractors and Consumers Who Contract for Services-New Lien Law Forms and Procedures to Change Starting Jan 1, 2010

Hey I bet you were so busy this year that as a contractor you didn't evn know that the mechanic's lien law forms have changed!

There's new rules about liens and notifying owners about their property being lien'd. Tell the truth, I was busy too and didn't know, til I read about it in my local Builders Exchange Bulletin.

Download the new forms, review the new law and get your self in compliance at Porter Law Group's website by clicking here.

This is important! You will lose your rights to collect your money if you don't follow the letter of the law in noticing clients about liens on their property...

Who Do You Want on Your Job? A Guy Working Out of the Back of a Car That Should Have Gone to Cash 4 Clunkers?

So last week in my journeys through Thousand Oaks, I went by an HOA I had bid on for some deck work. I wanted to see if the competitor who got the job had started and see if what I predicted (dry-rot and other issues) had come true...

so as I drove through the complex, I didn't see any trucks or other construction related activity, until I rolled around a corner to see the BMW pictured above with the trunk open. I saw someone working on a deck nearby so I stoppe dto see what was up...

Sure enough, this worker is working on the deck, and he's working out of his trunk of his car...with cans of Life Deck in the rear that he had just bought at the store...

I'm ok with Associations hiring companies like this...it assures my future with a hack like this.