All Comment articles – Page 312
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Walter Lilly vs Mackay: A question of timing
A recent judgment has ended once and for all the long-running debate over who takes a hit when both parties in a contract have contributed to delays
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Hansom: Games, set and match
In the week the Olympics hit town, ministers blame rainy days for construction’s part in the double-dip recession, some super-heroic charity fundraising efforts and NLA’s Peter Murray tells it like it is
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The New Homes Bonus: Home truths
The coalition’s much vaunted New Homes Bonus to increase housebuilding is falling victim to perverse incentives, lazy definitions and unsustainable cost
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Wonders & blunders with Mike Jacob
The owner of Trunk Low Energy Ðǿմ«Ã½ is filled with nostalgic wonder every time he glimpses the Emley Moor transmitting station, but cringes at The Blade, Reading’s attempt at becoming a city
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How to use an architect
Open mike The profession’s leadership skills and long-term approach to value hold the key to cutting public sector building costs by 20%
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Could we just add a staircase here, perhaps?
The Giles Mackay case shows the folly of using a lump-sum contract on a project where the amateur client, inspired by House & Garden, wants a hand in the design…
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BIM and PPC2000: In top form
As BIM embeds itself deeper in the construction industry, contracts that facilitate collaboration in the project team are becoming vital. PPC2000 is one of these…
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Don't use the recession as an excuse to stop training
CITB-ConstructionSkills chief executive Mark Farrar argues why now is the time to upskill your workforce
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My digital life ... Vincent Kane
Davis Langdon’s head of culture reveals his online addictions and why he loves the Barclays Boris Bike app
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Turn on the power
In the first of three articles looking at key risks for contractors on energy projects, we examine a typical contract structure for a power station build
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PFI: Road to nowhere
The coalition’s attempts to attract private finance to infrastructure projects merely postpones the inevitable return to PFI
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Lost opportunities
The no marketing rules are impeding knowledge sharing as well as publicity opportunities
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Let’s get radical
Yes, please for more infrastructure investment - but let’s make sure enlightened procurement becomes the rule rather than the exception
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A job well done
The Olympic build is a massive achievement for the industry – let’s hope its passing is not the end of a golden age
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Hansom: Hidden depths
This week, Grant Shapps is unmasked as a ‘bot’, RIBA’s Angela Brady reveals herself to be multilingual (sort of), and Wilmott Dixon tries to alert school children to the hazard s of getting plastered
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Smoothing over the cracks
Here’s a case where homeowners took a builder to court for damages when cracks appeared in their homes. The question was how to calculate what compensation to pay
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Calculating compensation
Here’s a case where homeowners took a builder to court for damages when cracks appeared in their homes. The question was how to calculate what compensation to pay
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Wonders & blunders with David Bickle
The Hawkins/Brown partner is mesmerised by Living Architecture’s enigmatic boat on the roof of London’s Southbank Centre, but all wound up about Anish Kapoor’s Orbit tower