Welcome to your daily briefing on construction developments in Maryland. Today we're covering 9 key stories including updates on maryland construction headlines, maryland construction updates, background & context. Let's dive in.
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Detailed information about each residential or commercial building permit processed by, and under the jurisdiction of, Marin County. Data is updated daily and covers the time period beginning January 1, 2014 until the present.
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Get your Maryland construction licenses. Harbor Compliance assists with initial and renewal registrations in every state.
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Maryland’s contractor licensing is different than many other states. Use this guide to familiarize yourself with requirements and stay above board.
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Recordable injuries (OSHA 300 log entries) include any that require medical treatment beyond first aid. Reportable injuries — which trigger an immediate notification to OSHA — are limited to fatalities (within 8 hours) and inpatient hospitalizations, amputations, or eye losses (within 24 hours). The categories are not the same.
Confusing the two leads to either over-reporting (creating audit triggers) or under-reporting (which is itself a citation-worthy violation). Knowing the distinction protects both the safety record and the regulatory posture.
Federal Davis-Bacon applies to projects with federal funding above a threshold; state "little Davis-Bacon" laws apply to state-funded projects with their own thresholds. The trap: rules apply to the work, not the contract — a privately funded portion of a project with any covered funding is subject to coverage on the whole.
Wage-rate violations carry back-pay liability, debarment from future public bidding, and personal liability for officers in many states. The audits look back years.
Most construction contracts require change orders to be in writing, but many states enforce an "oral modification" exception when the parties' conduct shows agreement — especially when the changed work is performed and accepted without protest. Continued performance without written change orders can waive the writing requirement entirely.
Contractors who do extra work hoping to "true it up later" routinely lose those claims because the conduct shows acceptance of the original scope. A signed change order before the work is the cleanest evidence of agreement.
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