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CommentWeb watch - Cover me!
On 星空传媒.co.uk this week we have had running coverage of the OFT investigation, one of the biggest stories of the year, and we鈥檝e devised new ways to keep you informed. Alex Smith reports
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Due diligence: Lambson Fine Chemicals Ltd vs Merlion Capital Housing Ltd
In May 2004, Lambson Fine Chemicals Ltd sold a 40-acre industrial property to Merlion Capital Housing Ltd for 拢12.25m. The property had been used for the manufacture of chemicals since the 1860s. By the late 1940s it was owned by Laporte and used for the manufacture of suphuric acid, sodium ...
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星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� at the NSPCC pub quiz
Right. Here we go. The NSPCC pub quiz. A low-pressure affair you might think for the hacks at 星空传媒 magazine, but there is professional pride at stake here.
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Wonders & blunders
A tale of two London stations this week 鈥� one a glorious example of what the new can bring to the old, the other a grim warning of what it can take away, says Robert Clark
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CommentFirst impressions: Projects by Alsop and Cube Design
University of East London student comments on some recent projects shown on the 星空传媒 website
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All open and above board
I read with interest Liam Holder鈥檚 letter (4 April, page 38) suggesting that my article on SGS vs Barratt (14 March, page 70) breached some kind of 鈥渁ssumed鈥� confidentiality.Although I acknowledge the general assumption is that adjudication is private and notionally confidential, I have yet to see any law that ...
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Comment10 years of the Construction Act
Ten years after it became law, the Construction Act is a boisterous, perplexing triumph. Here鈥檚 its biography. Overleaf, Rudi Klein and Dominic Helps add their views, and we hear from one man who went through the mill and survived
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Will house building lead construction into recession?
Reading the news in the FT that Merrill Lynch's Mark Hake, the longstanding construction industry analyst, has downgraded house builders was not good to hear.But more worrying to the industry as a whole is that he seems to be suggesting industry volumes will drop by a quarter this year. That ...
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Small building firms squeezed as housing work shrinks
Local builders appear to be taking a bashing as a combination of householders with less money in their pockets and a freezing housing market takes its toll.Each quarter their trade body FMB conducts a state of trade survey where it measures (among other things) the balance between those seeing workload ...
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Consensus grows on house price falls
Each week with each piece of data and each new forecast the balance of probability weighs increasingly heavily on the side of house prices falling rather than remaining flat this year.Today we see released the spring Item Club economic outlook for business and the latest Rightmove figures on asking prices ...
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Commercial property demand plummets
The latest RICS survey on commercial property demand makes grim reading.Two figures are particularly worrying for the construction sector. Firstly: The balance of surveyors reporting demand down against those seeing demand rising was 30%, the worst figure for six years. Secondly: The balance between surveyors saying there was more available ...
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Slowing lending points to worsening housing market
There was little joy in today's release of the Council of Mortgage Lenders March figures for lending, as they reinforced data pointing to a weakening housing market.Lending was up 5% on February, but the normal 20% March jump was absent with the figure 17% down on a year ago. Worse ...
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CommentA sackload of trouble
Can a party to an adjudication introduce evidence that wasn鈥檛 previously disclosed if it fundamentally alters the original claim? The answer used to be no, but a recent judgment may have reversed this
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CommentWhat a relief
It may look like fiddling while Rome burns but the tax measures in last month鈥檚 Budget may actually get our industry to become a bit more eco-conscious
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The wrong tool for the job
You wouldn鈥檛 go to a chiropractor to have your teeth checked, so why go anywhere other than the TCC for a building dispute?
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CommentSplendid isolation
Mediation is an excellent alternative to court proceedings, but these days the two forms of dispute resolution are getting mixed up. Mediation should be left to its own devices
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CommentG is for guarantee, H is for hazardous
The A to Z of construction law -聽Our instant course in legal concepts continues by asking when is a guarantee not a guarantee and how should hazardous materials be handled in contracts?
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CommentSquashed flat
So farewell to Erinaceous, possibly the most bizarrely named company in the construction sector: the hedgehog has finally curled into a ball and rolled out of the door.
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CommentLesley Lokko: 'I enjoy writing the sex scenes. It's great fun!'
Erotica isn鈥檛 perhaps the first thing you think of when 星空传媒 drops on your desk, but then it鈥檚 not every week we get to interview best-selling bonkbuster author Lesley Lokko. Emily Wright spoke to her about her African upbringing, her training as an architect and, well, you know, the naughty ...
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CommentHansom: Digital watch
Beware the dangers of the digital age: you design a holiday resort in Italy and, thanks to Google Earth, you don鈥檛 even get to go and 鈥榗heck its progress鈥�. And don鈥檛 even talk to me about Facebook 鈥�