Contractor Community – September 2020

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September 22, 2020
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Apply for ASA’s annual industry awards!

Each year, ASA gives individuals, companies, and chapters the opportunity to apply for ASA Awards. These prestigious awards are a way to highlight those in the subcontracting community who are shining examples of excellence. Apply today!

ASA is proud to announce a NEW AWARD THIS YEAR, the National Annual Safety Award, representing ASA’s commitment to safety and safety education. Being nominated for this award is a significant honor in your community and among your peers. Each chapter can nominate ONE company for the ASA National Safety Award. All nominations will be displayed at ASA’s National SUBExcel Conference where each nominee will receive recognition on a National Level.

Other distinguished awards presented are:

ASA Certificate of Excellence in Ethics
ASA National Construction Best Practices Awards
President’s Award
Subcontractor Federal and State Advocate Awards
Attorney’s Council Awards
John H. Hampshire Distinguished Lifetime Service Award
Timmy L. McLaughlin Exemplary Leadership Award
ASA Outstanding Service Award
ASA Chapter and Chapter Leadership Awards

Apply today for ASA Awards, and get the recognition you deserve!

ProCore’s GroundBreak Conference for Construction Offers ASA Members Additional Discount

This year, ProCore is going virtual with Groundbreak, offering 10 CEU credits across 20 different sessions on topics like safety, inclusion and diversity, innovation, power skills, and more. Not to mention amazing keynotes and other engaging content. That’s an estimated $1000 worth of educational content for just $99. ASA members receive an additional $10 off. These sessions will be available live at Groundbreak and on-demand for an additional 30 days––so your members can take them at their convenience. Check the current issue of Hammer & Nails and ASAToday for the discount link.

eSUB Construction Software Releases New Project Summary Dashboards

Dashboards centered on KPIs to help trade contractors protect profits

eSUB Construction Software announced the release of its new Project Summary Dashboards, providing information about a project’s risk and profit on one screen. The Dashboards are part of the company’s ongoing initiative to update its platform architecture and modernize the user interface.

“As a data-centric platform, eSUB captures a tremendous amount of data related to field activity, project costs, labor hours, and even time between documentation approvals,” says Wendy Rogers, president and CEO of eSUB Construction Software. “Now more than ever, trade contractors need that data to quickly determine the status of a project from a cost perspective and identify early warning signs for potential risk. We’re thrilled about this new update because it delivers a real-time snapshot of the project so trade contractors can protect their profits.” Click here to view this press release on the eSUB website.

NLRB Issues Decisions Regarding Social Media and Non-Disparagement Rules

This article is from our friends at SESCO Management Services, one of the many stellar ASAdvantage members available to ASA Members. To learn more about all of the benefits that come with your ASA Membership, please click here.

Employee social media expression can damage an organization’s brand and violate its social media and non-disparagement rules. Discipline for social media expression can run afoul of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently clarified the types of employee social media activity employers may regulate, giving employers more latitude to discipline employees for social media conduct that violates employer rules and threatens the employer’s reputation. In short, employers still need to carefully review social media policies to make sure they protect the company’s reputation with customers and/or the general public without impermissibly limiting employees’ rights to discuss working conditions among themselves. Click here to read the full article from SESCO Management Consultants.

ASA Virtual Attorneys’ Council Meeting

ASA would like to invite you to participate in our 2020 American Subcontractors Association Fall Virtual Attorneys’ Council meeting. After surveying our members on the best timing for this meeting, the majority leaned toward an afternoon session on Friday, October 16th. Our meeting planned for San Antonio has been moved to Fall 2021.

In addition, we would like to invite you to join us for a VIRTUAL HAPPY HOUR prior to the meeting on the evening of Thursday, October 15th with friends and attorneys from across the country. It’s a poor substitute for our lively dinners, but we are making the best of it in these difficult times. We hope you can join us for both!

As always, we look forward to an informative, insightful and entertaining dialogue with a group of legal experts in the construction contracting industry. Please feel free to pass along any topics you would like to see discussed during this year’s meeting.

Contact Shannon at soscar@asa-hq.com with any questions. REGISTER NOW TO PARTICIPATE!

Performance and Payment Bond Forms from ConsensusDocs Coalition

ConsensusDocs is a proud member of the ASAdvantage program, ASA’s stellar member benefit program. To learn more about all of the ASAdvantage deals available to ASA members, click here. Check out the Contractor’s Compass issue about ConsensusDocs from December 2019.

The ConsensusDocs Coalition recently published eight newly revised performance and payment bond forms. These comprehensive revisions further ensure that ConsensusDocs has the most up-to-date and best practice performance and payment bonds in the industry.

Significantly, the ConsensusDocs 706 Subcontractor Performance Bond now provides a self-help provision, which is not included in other standard bond forms. Also included are more definitive time requirements regarding the Surety’s time period to investigate and respond in a timely fashion. In addition, the performance bonds now require a definitive declaration of default or non-default upon its investigation. The payment bonds now address a threshold for which a surety consent is required when contract orders increase the contract amount.

ConsensusDocs is the only bond form that includes four different versions of design-build performance and payment bonds that address issues of potential surety design liability.