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CommentQuentin Shears: Can you erect a tent without pegs?
The cladding contractor hit her brother with a tent pole. 鈥機hildren! You can鈥檛 fight. This is an NEC contract!鈥�
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CommentCountry matters
For the architect, the country offers variety, novelty and the prospect of tanned craftsmen toiling in the wolds. But if you want control over a project, stick to the city
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Prepare yourself for a shock: D&O insurance for corporate manslaughter
The Corporate Manslaughter Act puts company executives in the firing line for breaches of health and safety, so it鈥檚 wise to get some protection
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Controlling interest
Doom and gloom followed the latest Construction Trade Survey鈥檚 reports. But this forecast of a bleak future should be seen as an opportunity to learn from past mistakes and challenge the way the industry works
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Enforcing no set-off clauses
In her otherwise excellent column on the 2010 RIBA forms of architect鈥檚 appointment (A return to a simpler time, 13 August), Rachel Barnes predicts that a court may decline to enforce the no set-off clause
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CommentDefine 鈥榣ate鈥�: City Inn vs Shepherd
The case of City Inn vs Shepherd has already created debate over how delays should be treated. It also has much to say about JCT80鈥檚 treatment of when instructions are due
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CommentWonders & blunders with Nicholas Parsons
Nicholas Parsons doesn鈥檛 hesitate to praise St Pancras station. But he finds post-war housing repetitive and deviant
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All skilled up and nowhere to go
News that the likes of BT and Network Rail have been inundated with applicants for their apprenticeship programmes should be welcomed
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CommentThe fire alarm is ringing
It鈥檚 official: if a timber-frame building catches fire, it will suffer more damage than if it were built using other forms of construction
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CommentIt ain't half hot, cold and muddy
Russian veteran Harvey Smith tells us how to cope with a 74潞C annual temperature range, find unusual ways to lift a 12-tonne spire - and why Ladas are better cars than Range Rovers
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CommentLorraine Lee vs Chartered Properties: A late adjudicator
In this case the adjudicator鈥檚 mistake was to take the weekend to type up his decision, here鈥檚 why鈥�
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Accidents will happen 鈥� in adjudication
After getting on for 500 enforcements, one thing is clear: an adjudicator is expected to make mistakes. But that is the fault of the system - and it鈥檚 outweighed by its benefits
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CommentIn absentia: Jean Shaw vs James Scott Builders
This case is all about missing persons, missing contracts, missing drawings and missing deadlines. So no surprise when eventually it all turned around a missing email
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Karsan Vaghani: Universities don't need iconic buildings any more
Higher education cuts mean the priorities for university estates is changing and value for money is now key
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CommentPassivhaus refurb diaries, part 4: The day of the airtightness test
The architect behind the retrofit of an Edwardian property using Passivhaus principles reviews the results of the first airtightness test鈥�
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CommentAedifice vs Mr Ashwin Shah: Does the adjudicator have jurisdiction?
The process of objecting to an adjudicator鈥檚 jurisdiction has to be conducting properly, as this case highlights鈥�
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CommentNewport: We have a problem...
The recent upsurge in the construction output figures has baffled the industry, so is it all a cock-up on the part of the ONS statisticians in Wales?
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CommentHow to challenge an adjudicator's jurisdiction
Here's a quick guide, courtsey of the courts, on how to object to an adjudicator resolving your dispute
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CommentWhy does BREEAM ignore embodied carbon?
Discussion about the future of BREEAM has so far not included this major element of a building鈥檚 overall carbon performance