In Response to COVID-19, AISC Kicks Off a Free Virtual Steel Conference
Session addresses how to proceed without written change orders
Subcontractors are not obliged to proceed with any additional work on a project based on a verbal directive alone from the general contractor or owner, rather than a signed, written directive, also known as a change order. That is a “foundational principle,” said lawyer George E. Pallas, managing partner of Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC.
Pallas, also assistant general counsel for the American Institute of Steel Construction, offered his advice on change orders as one of the first presenters at AISC’s NASCC—The Virtual Steel Conference, being held online April 21-24. In response to COVID-19, AISC is holding the webinar-like conference instead of the annual conference originally planned for Atlanta April 22-24.