Given construction’s labor and skills shortages, primes sometimes need to hire less-than-optimal partners. Here’s how to ...

But it’s not always obvious how to mitigate risk — especially if you’ve never hired a general ... subs are best). Also, you should always be absolutely sure that when you pay the contractor ...

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.

The general contractor and five sub-contractors that helped build the luxury high rise at 88 Regent Street in Jersey City paid workers under the table, failed to make timely payments to workers ...

J. Jeffers & Co. fired its general contractor for the Colman Yards project after disputes and work stoppages. The $170 million project is expected to be a year or more behind schedule. The former ...