Campaign benefiting Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver. In addition to donations from local companies and other corporate sponsors, SMPS will host a fundraising golf tournament on July 10 at The Ranch in Westminster. To qualify for the program, families must be under a maximum income level and complete 500 hours of service, building their homes and those of other Habitat homeowners.
Volunteers work alongside the families, forging bonds and building a better community.
Following a unanimous decision by its board of directors, the American Subcontractors Association has launched a campaign challenging leaders in the construction industry and public policy makers to renounce business practices and public policies that shift virtually all insurable risks down to subcontractors. More and more, subcontractors are made liable, by contracts and through insurance policies, for risks that they cannot control. To address misallocation of risk, ASA is asking legislators and groups developing model construction contracts to review and appropriately revise legal contract language. In spite of these solutions, misallocation of risk continues to be widespread in the construction industry, On March 27, ASA's board of directors voted at the ASA Business Forum and Annual convention 2001 in Biloxi to adopt a slate of policies recommending language to include and avoid in model contract documents, and recommending legislative changes to address shortcomings in the law. ASA does not seek to insulate subcontractors from liabilities for risks that they can control, such as employee safety in areas controlled by the subcontractor or the quality of the subcontractor's work.