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Put it in writing
The claimant, Mott MacDonald Ltd (MM), is a specialist construction engineering consultant. It undertook a variety of engineering services for the defendant, property developer London & Regional Properties Ltd (LRP) in relation to the phase 2 infrastructure works for a business park at Park Royal, London. These services, which included ...
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Private investigations
Construction is a hotbed of malpractice and graft, so there鈥檚 a good chance your company will be affected. If so, how do you find out whodunnit? Angus Darroch-Warren explains
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CommentSupreme indifference
The construction industry has largely ignored the JCT鈥檚 prime cost contract, largely because it doesn鈥檛 do prime cost procurement. But that may change in the near future 鈥�
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Quarry House
The caption accompanying the picture of Quarry House (13 July, page 37) indicates that it was designed by Sir Terry Farrell.
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CommentHere鈥檚 the pitch
Our industry will never have the skills or resources to communicate to a mass audience in the way of a great film director like Sydney Pollack, but that doesn鈥檛 mean we can鈥檛 learn a trick or two ...
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Heres a plan
The recently announced Office of Fair Trading study into the UK housebuilding industry highlights two areas of concern: land supply and planning.
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At the forum
Your article on the handover of the chairmanship of the Strategic Forum (6 July, page 36) refers to 鈥渢he three core member bodies鈥� of the forum.
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Gordon鈥檚 first steps
Housing reform was rightly the centrepiece of the legislative programme unveiled by Gordon Brown.
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CommentPolicies for a rainy day
In hindsight, Yvette Cooper probably wishes she鈥檇 waited for a break in the weather before launching her green paper.
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Comment星空传媒 windmills in Cloud Cuckoo Land
Open mike 鈥斅燭he GLA wants office buildings to generate 20% of the energy they use. The only problem with this, says Richard Kauntze, is it can鈥檛 be done. So here鈥檚 a proposal that will work
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CommentYou bought it, you pay for it
Question: When does a main contractor have to pay a subcontractor for work that it hasn鈥檛 done? Answer: When it agreed a fixed-price lump sum contract based on issued drawings 鈥�
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CommentWonders & blunders
Alistair Barr picks two City columns, one a multitalented 17th-century marvel, the other a bang-up-to date failure of nerve and imagination
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What鈥檚 the best way to build a tower?
Tall buildings are shooting up all over Britain. This raises the question: which procurement route should you use to construct them? Here鈥檚 the first of two articles on this very question
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CommentSound advice
Edinburgh academics explain why you should listen to your building materials before using them, plus Ed Balls鈥� guide to parenting and the JFK approach to dealing with specialist contractors
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A simple solution
Why are we building half as many houses as we did in the sixties? Because the public sector has stopped building its half.
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CommentThe Prince of Wails
Colin Harding has been writing his column for 20 years now. Looking back over that time, the single most significant event was probably Prince Charles鈥� attack on architects, and the howls of protest that followed it 鈥�