MGT-615 examines legal aspects of the construction industry, including interpretation of the law, contract administration, and risk management. Using a case study approach, students analyze cases to apply legal concepts and principles, interpret the law, and determine the performance and flexibility of contracts. Additional topics include ethics, dispute resolution, liability, labor laws, insurance, and bonds. Students completing this course are exposed to pertinent laws and contractual requirements and limitations associated with construction management.
Contract interpretation as a genuine analytical skill
The course builds the ability to interpret construction contracts and legal principles through case analysis, treating legal interpretation as a genuine analytical skill construction managers must develop, not something to defer entirely to legal counsel.
The full legal risk landscape of construction
MGT-615 covers a genuinely wide legal risk landscape — dispute resolution, liability, labor laws, insurance, and bonds — reflecting the many distinct legal exposures a construction manager must understand to manage a project responsibly.
Key topics in MGT615
- Contract administration and interpretation
- Risk management in construction law
- Ethics and dispute resolution
- Liability and labor laws
- Insurance and bonds
- Case-based legal analysis for construction management
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Worked example: contract flexibility versus rigid interpretation
- Rigid interpretation: Assuming a contract's terms allow no room for reasonable adjustment as project circumstances change
- Informed interpretation: Understanding the contract's actual performance and flexibility provisions to navigate legitimate changes appropriately
- Lesson: MGT-615 teaches that construction managers need genuine contract interpretation skill to distinguish these situations correctly, not just a general awareness that contracts exist
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Frequently asked questions
Construction managers make day-to-day decisions — approving changes, responding to delays, managing subcontractor relationships — that constantly intersect with contractual terms, and waiting for attorney involvement on every such decision would be impractical and slow project execution, so managers need enough genuine legal literacy to recognize contractual implications and know when attorney involvement is actually necessary. MGT-615 builds this interpretive skill because effective construction management requires operating competently within the legal framework day to day, not outsourcing all legal reasoning entirely.
Construction projects genuinely expose managers to legal risk across many distinct dimensions simultaneously — a labor dispute, an insurance claim after an accident, a bonding requirement for project completion — and a construction manager who only understands contract law narrowly may be unprepared for these other real legal exposures that arise regularly in construction work. MGT-615 covers this breadth because construction management's legal risk landscape is genuinely this wide, not confined to contracts alone.