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The Construction Services Group at Babst Calland provides clients in each sector of the construction industry with cost-effective and practical representation in all aspects of construction law.

Babst Calland attorneys are cognizant that clients in the construction industry are often challenged to strike a balance between a multitude of complex and seemingly contradictory concerns, including: cost efficiency, scheduling demands, governmental regulations, technological advances, and environmental issues. Our Construction Services Group is strategically positioned to assist the construction industry clients in achieving and maintaining this difficult, and delicate, balance.

Construction Contract and Business Services

Babst Calland's Construction Services Group has handled a wide variety of matters relating to all business aspects of the construction process, including: real estate acquisition, land use issues (including zoning), structuring and negotiating project financing, contract drafting and negotiation, obtaining required certifications, contract review and interpretation. Babst Calland attorneys have also assisted clients that have been forced to deal with the multitude of issues that can impact a construction project when one of the entities involved in the project files for bankruptcy.

Construction Litigation Services

Babst Calland's committed to effectively advocating on behalf of our construction clients to facilitate early resolution of disputes, and we provide advice to our clients during the course of their work on construction projects with the goal of keeping the client out of litigation. To the extent that litigation is unavoidable, however, Babst Calland attorneys have represented clients in construction project litigation in state and federal courts, before arbitration panels and mediators in the tri-state region and throughout the country. Babst Calland attorneys have litigated claims for clients relating to: bid disputes (including obtaining emergency injunctions); delay, acceleration and inefficiency claims; design and construction deficiency claims; prompt payment, bond and lien disputes as well as complex construction technology issues. In approaching the litigation of construction disputes, Babst Calland focuses on providing cost-effective, aggressive representation while being sentient of the financial needs and business goals of the client.

Construction Workforce Services

The Construction Services Group is also comprised of attorneys with extensive employment and labor experience who promptly and effectively address workforce issues that often arise on a construction site. In this arena, Babst Calland attorneys have negotiated labor agreements, facilitated resolution of disputes under the National Labor Relations Act, obtained injunctions to bar mass picketing, litigated prevailing wage rate disputes and addressed OSHA complaints. Babst Calland attorneys provide construction industry clients a prompt response to any employment and labor issue that threatens a construction project.

Environmental Support Services

Many Babst Calland attorneys have substantial technical backgrounds and practical experiences that assist them in addressing simple to complex environmental issues that develop before, during or after a construction project. In this context, Babst Calland attorneys advise clients regarding environmental issues associated with construction projects, such as: brownfields issues, hazardous materials (including asbestos), underground storage tank issues, and wetlands issues as well as the interpretation of applicable state and federal environmental laws and regulations and the defense against citations for violation of such laws. Given the substantial experience of our environmental attorneys in addressing construction project related environmental issues, Babst Calland is uniquely positioned to serve clients in the construction industry.

Commitment to Client Service

Not only has Babst Calland's focused Construction Services Group developed an extensive knowledge base, but it stays current on all developments in construction law. We advise our clients of these new developments by providing a newsletter, Under Construction, which addresses everything from new statutes and regulations, to controversial case decisions, to practical and innovative ways to avoid construction-related legal problems.

Overall, the diverse and comprehensive experiences of Babst Calland's attorneys comprising this group, and the firm-wide dedication to client satisfaction, enable the Construction Services Group to provide practical and cost-effective legal representation to clients in the construction industry.

Babst Calland attorneys are active members of several construction industry trade associations, including: