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CommentWebmaster review: Foster + Partners website
Architect Foster + Partners' website, fosterandpartners.com, scores well on usability but badly needssome search engine optimisation
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CommentInsolvency law: Flogging a dead horse
Despite changes to the law since the last recession, Chris Hill and Amanda Greenwood say that, as far as insolvency is concerned, adjudication rights are unclear
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CommentMaking this country grate
How can we beat Beijing at hosting Olympic Games and improve our place in the medal table? Well, we can make the most of our Britishness. Chris Addison explains how
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CommentEnterprise Managed Services Limited v East Midland Contracting Limited
The CaseThe Claimant sought to reverse the decision of an adjudicator, by which the adjudicator had decided that the Claimant was obliged to pay the Defendant the sum of 拢1,131,668.29 as damages for breach of contract. The parties to the Sub-Contract continued to place orders and undertake work under the ...
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CommentRICS consultancy form: A false friend
The RICS鈥� forms for appointing consultants may be easy to use, but they have some distinctly hostile implications for those who sign them without amendment
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CommentMy digital life: Chris Lynn
Engineer and sports addict Chris Lynn is happy to admit he uses his computer to play games, watch the Olympics and visit football websites, but is a bit more secretive about the present he鈥檚 bought his wife
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CommentThe camera sometimes lies
Open mike聽Thermal imaging is an invaluable tool, but beware: in the wrong hands, those pretty pictures don鈥檛 always tell the full story, says Rod Appleyard
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CommentSupersizing Cabe
Cabe is happy to condemn the work of 鈥榗ommercial鈥� practices but seems rather reluctant to do the same for the A-listers, such as Rafael Vi帽oly鈥檚 Walkie-talkie
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星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for Elementa Consulting
Chosen venue: The George, Borough High Street聽Ambience: Olde Worlde pub crowded with not so olde worlde afterwork drinkers聽Topics: sustainable pubs, softball and water divining聽Drinks: 7 pints of Guinness, 4.5 pints of bitter, 1 pint of Fosters, a half of Becks, 2 white wines
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CommentConstruction Act payment rules: Unspeakable
One problem that has bedevilled the Construction Act鈥檚 payment rules is finding a few simple sentences that explain what they actually are 鈥�
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Lianakis AE v Alexandroupolis: Ability don't enter into it
The European Court of Justice has made it clear that public bodies cannot take account of a bidder鈥檚 capacity to do the job at the award stage
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Now here's a thing
Might the solution to the Olympic officials' worries over filling the skills gap left by returning Polish workers be staring them in the face?There's a property-led recession in Ireland that is freeing up construction workers at a fair rate of knots?Mind you, perhaps they need look no further than our ...
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Treasury faces 拢4.5 billion hole as house sales and stamp duty receipts slump
The steady decline in the UK housing market has been underlined by the latest numbers to come out of HM Revenue & Customs. They show sales of homes dropping to 72,000 in August, compared with 164,000 last August.The figures show a continuing slide that not only highlights the collapse in ...
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Why house prices indexes seem insane and short-term forecasts are futile
The Council of Mortgage Lenders is bang on when it says it is futile to try to update its house price forecast.Frankly it is probably sufficient to say that houses are worth less than they were a year ago and in a year's time they will probably be worth a ...
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CommentNovation: Wise precautions
If you鈥檙e a contractor and you鈥檙e asked to accept the novation of a consultant, make sure it really is going to be joining you 鈥� and be careful which form you use
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CommentIn for nasty weather
The financial storm that has been blowing through the banking world for the past year turned into a category-five tornado this week.
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Show me the money
While an A-Z of Construction Law cannot expect to cover all angles, I would take issue with a point made by Michael Conroy Harris in his latest chapter 鈥� J for Jurisdiction (5 September page 63).
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CommentStanding up to the mob
Discussion about the merits and demerits of immigration usually takes the form of endless tabloid flood warnings. Nick Raynsford urges us to put the other side of the argument
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CommentPut out that fear
In response to your story, 鈥淚nsurers warn of fire risk from green roofs鈥� (5 August, page 12), there is little, if any, evidence to suggest that green roofs significantly increase the risk of fire.