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What鈥檚 it worth?
The claimants were trustees of a settlement. They owned a property comprising a number of shops and flats. The primary purpose of the trust was to provide income rather than capital growth.The claimants sought to obtain vacant possession of the individual flats with a view to re-letting them on short-term ...
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CommentSuit yourself
The JCT has embraced the digital age with a service promising quick, clean documents that are precisely tailored to the job they cover
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The race still running
Your article 鈥淔our housebuilders pull out of 鈥榦nerous鈥� grant process鈥� (28 October, page 22) took a somewhat sensational line and missed at least some of the point as a result. Opening bidding to private developers for the first time was always going to be about testing the market. We expected ...
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CommentTales from the pit
Our thanks to George Fordyce, head of engineering policy at the National Home 星空传媒 Council, for sharing this fine example of ladder craft.
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CommentOpen Mike: Wrong turnings
David Trench, the project director on the Millennium Dome, knows from experience what happens when people stray too far from a project鈥檚 initial raison d鈥櫭猼re
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CommentLook to the skies
We need to forget about cheap houses and luxury riverside apartments and start building high quality high rise, says the latest column from our graduate panel
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Hold your horses
It was interesting to note Christopher Linnett鈥檚 comments on the increasingly short periods of time being allowed for contractors to tender for design-and-build enquiries (14 October).
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CommentDouble your risk
A fitter鈥檚 mate who stepped on some ductwork in a Tyneside factory inadvertently overturned 200 years of legal tradition 鈥� and greatly increased contractors鈥� liability
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Credit control where it鈥檚 due
Colin Harding and fellow travellers should remember one important fact before attempting to have retentions outlawed: contractors usually get paid 95% or 97% of work done to date in advance of completion, once a month.
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The rise and rise of consultation
Jon Rouse sensibly sees the pursuit of consensus through interminable consultation as a failure of nerve among those politically or professionally charged with planning (30 September). This serves as an apology from the man who established the corrosive influence of the unelected CABE.
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Completion equals confidence
Congratulations to Trevor Hursthouse for defending the indefensible 鈥� that is, retentions 鈥� (7 October) but I suppose as chairman of the Specialist Engineering Contractors鈥� Group he had no alternative.
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If you can鈥檛 stand the heat 鈥�
Perhaps, as Mr Linnett considers it bad practice to tender within such periods, he should stop working in the hot kitchen and retire to the dining room immediately.As a front-line contractor鈥檚 estimator, I鈥檓 the first to agree that a contractor鈥檚 bid team is up against it when undertaking such a ...
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CommentWonders & blunders
Des Lynam analyses the performance of two very different domes 鈥� and as usual, Italy scores big points while England gets a red card 鈥�
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CommentBehind the veil
This is a murky tale of one man, three companies and a lot of fly-tipping. It also illustrates how the courts will look at who truly controls a company 鈥�
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CommentWinning on penalties
Construction may one of the worst offending industries for wasting energy, but criminalising firms won鈥檛 necessarily protect the environment
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Strength in numbers
Ian Abley confuses co-operation with submissiveness in his attack on collaborative working (14 October).
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CommentA nuclear spring
To plug the energy gap, Britain鈥檚 ageing nuclear power stations must be replaced. This is what government and industry has to do to get them up and running in time