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CommentCan I have my money back? Claiming back failed tender costs
Money matters:聽Losing bidders may now be tempted to claim compensation if tender processes are not conducted fairly. But proving it can be tricky
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CommentKissing goodbye to your money? Creditors voluntary arrangements
Tony Bingham聽Your contractor wins an adjudication award but is subject to a creditors鈥� voluntary arrangement. You intend to take the case to arbitration. Do you pay up in the meantime?
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CommentAre you stuck in one-way traffic? Liquidated damages and the Construction Act
Rupert Choat聽Developers can鈥檛 rely on the Construction Act when they claim liquidated damages, but the contractor can when it reclaims them. How unfair!
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Back issues: Celebrating 150 years of incomprehensible rail fares 鈥�
February 1859: Our remarks touching the policy of railway companies
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Clive Sayer salutes a 5,000-year-old citadel, but is less impressed by a more short-term project 鈥�
My wonder is the fortified Cit茅 de Carcassonne, the origins of which can be traced back to 3500 BC.
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Is there any value in valuing housing?
I thought it might be worth responding to the comment from Gerry. I don't get many comments and he raises a good point.My first reaction is to say that I couldn't agree more that people should see homes as homes and not as investments. I also feel that if we ...
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The power of the brand
So, Sir Robert McAlpine is the best brand in construction.So says a new list of the top 500 鈥渂usiness superbrands鈥� in the UK anyway.The pathologically secretive contractor came in at number 101 on a list that was topped by Google, Rolls Royce and Sony.So publicity-shy is the company that the ...
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拢1 trillion wiped off the value of UK homes
Let's not get too worked up about the 拢40 billion loss by RBS - those foolish bankers that went into a bidding war to buy ABN Amro at peak.If the Nationwide figures are any reflection of the true value of houses in the UK then we have just witness about ...
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White Young Green gives City a nasty surprise
All is clearly not well at engineering consultant White Young Green.It took the City by surprise today by bringing forward its half-year results from Friday at the eleventh hour. If there's one thing the market hates even more than bad news it's "sudden" news.Combine that with the fact it also ...
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Is this Government ignorance which I see before me?
The latest report from the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee called Housing and the Credit Crunch is well worth a read for a run through of the current travails of the industry.It seems broadly to "welcome" what the CLG and the Government more widely has been doing ...
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More mortgage cash from Northern Rock, but will it make a difference?
So Northern Rock is to get back into mortgages. I hear the cheers.The aim will be to get the first time buyer market moving. I hear more cheers.It will start lending on loan to value rates of up to 80% or even 90% - definitely not 100%, because that should ...
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CommentWhat remains
The housebuilding industry that emerges from this recession will bear little resemblance to the one that grew out of the nineties slump
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CommentOne hell of a job
So are we all agreed, then? What the government needs is a construction industry that is able to turn public investment into buildings and jobs
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Golden opportunities
I have lived and worked in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia, over the past 25 years and never regretted a minute of it. Some of my friends have been there for more than 30 years.
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CommentFisticuffs
Warning: this week鈥檚 diary contains graphic scenes of violence, as a Unite officer tests out his right jab, a Wembley grudge match reaches round two and Tim Byles submits to the school bullies
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CommentDon鈥檛 stop now
It is vital to maintain good working practices and industry capacity, so that when the recession ends Britain can meet the challenges of a new era
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Not-so-lucky dip
As a bricklayer with 24 years鈥� experience in the subcontracting game, it is with some relief that my son and I no longer subcontract
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CommentRumours of Dubai鈥檚 demise鈥�
The UK and US press have been making themselves feel better by trashing Dubai