Contract Documents and Construction Law is a construction contracts online course that focuses on understanding the relationship between contract documents and the construction process. In this class we explore contractual relationships, legal roles and responsibilities, and contract types.

Legal issues will be studied including regulatory issues, liens, bonds, insurance, and how standardized forms are used as well as general conditions clauses that affect levels of decision making authority, project close-out and the superintendent’s role as agent of the contractor.

In addition, we study legal issues that often result in construction disputes like differing site conditions, time and schedule impacts, change orders and changed conditions.

After that, we cover contract dispute resolution including negotiations, alternative dispute resolutions, and litigation of disputes. Students will be able to take the knowledge they learn from this course and apply to a number of our national construction certification programs.