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CommentWhat鈥檚 yours is mine
聽A retention may be held by an employer, but the money does not belong to it. This inconvenient fact is often overlooked by clients and main contractors 鈥� it鈥檚 so good for business, you see
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CommentThe lawyers鈥� playground
There have been more than 300 court decisions that 鈥榗larify鈥� the meaning of the Construction Act. The result is that only our learned friends really understand what the rules are
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Know your limits
The Law Commission wants a rethink of the law on limitations and this year you are invited to comment on the proposals. So here鈥檚 what they鈥檙e about鈥�
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Ringway Infrastructure Services Ltd vs Vauxhall Motors Ltd
The claimant applied for summary judgment to enforce a decision of an adjudicator. The contract between the parties was or incorporated the JCT Standard Form of 星空传媒 Contract with Contractor鈥檚 Design 1998 Edition, incorporating amendments 1-5. The claimant was employed to construct a vehicle distribution centre to carry out various ...
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CommentLiving in harmony
The Olympic park can be completed on time and without conflict between the sectors 鈥� but the strategies to ensure good relations must be sorted now.
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CommentWeb watch 鈥� Golden nuggets
If you want the latest environmental information in easily digestible, bite-sized chunks, you really should log on to 星空传媒鈥檚 sustainability channel. Phil Clark explains why
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Going for green
The news that the Olympic Delivery Authority鈥檚 business network will help companies across the UK compete for London 2012 business opportunities is a welcome announcement.
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CommentAre we gliding or plummeting?
鈥淚n 2008 it is likely that a less buoyant housing market will go hand in hand with slower growth in consumer spending. In the short run, that will slow economic activity, possibly quite sharply.鈥�
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CommentI鈥檒l get you later
This is the story of a client that decided to sue a contractor but not its consultants. Then it changed its mind and went after them, too. The consultants claimed that this was abuse of process 鈥� but were they right?
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Playing a risky game
I note every week the array of pictures sent in by vigilant readers detailing clear health and safety breaches seen on building sites, often in this country.
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CommentThe QS and the cockroach
As a loud and proud QS I have been reading about the imminent demise of our noble art for as long as I can remember.
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Every cloud
I read your piece 鈥淐onstruction firms will take credit crunch hit in 2008鈥� (11 January, page 20) with interest. It claimed insolvencies across all industries are set to rise 8.3% to 13,492 next year, with construction singled out as one of the biggest casualties.
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CommentClose shaves
While Willmott Dixon employees escape with their jobs, Make鈥檚 staff avoid being crushed by a steel tree and Gordon Brown dodges Mandarin quantity surveying manuals
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Nuclear clear-up
Contrary to the impression given in your quote from me in the article 鈥淭he path to power鈥� (18 January, page 28), the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and I are very clear about our policy on nuclear power.
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CommentA tale of three cities
Rome, Mumbai and Marrakesh each have much to tell us about how cities work, how they fail and the possibilities they offer to those who live in them.
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Comment星空传媒 inaugurates a coffee machine 鈥� with HTA
鈥淚鈥檓 not drinking until April,鈥� boasts Riette as she sips her hot water and lemon. I feel a little guilty as I knock back a double espresso.
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CommentThe RIBA bites back
Open mike聽鈥� Shortly before Christmas, two of our legal columnists wrote unkind words about the RIBA鈥檚 new standard conditions for hiring an architect. Here, the editor offers a critique of his own
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Cutting the atom down to size
Oh dear, two energy-related errors in the 11 January issue. First, kWh is a unit of energy while kW is a unit of power, not vice versa (page 75).