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CommentAsking for it
If you lose an adjudication to an opponent in poor financial health, can you decline to pay up? Happily, the courts have just laid down clear rules on this
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Arrested development
The respondent had been issued a stop notice dated 13 September 2003 requiring him to cease certain works that were being carried out on land that he owned. The stop notice provided that it would take effect on 22 September 2003. On 23 September 2003, a planning enforcement officer visited ...
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An open letter to Alun Michael
Dear Mr Michael 鈥� construction forms, I believe, one of your many minor portfolios, even though it forms the largest industry in the UK. I know you have much to consider, but I would like to offer you some simple advice.
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After Kyoto
The European Union is looking to cut 40% of carbon emissions from buildings, but it hasn鈥檛 decided exactly how. So, now鈥檚 your chance to influence the debate 鈥�
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A 51st viewpoint
I was interested to read your article 鈥淐onstruction: No place for women!鈥� (10 June, page 28). Unlike the 50 women who were interviewed on Oxford Street, when I was 16 I became an apprentice for a local authority as a painter and decorator. I met very little resistance from male ...
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CommentSuch a waste
In terms of amount of work, construction is performing well 鈥� but look at the all-important productivity data and it鈥檚 clear resources are still being managed inefficiently
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Can I have some more?
Many PFI contracts are about to reach their first price review, when the contractor can apply for more money. This is likely to lead to some old friends falling out
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CommentWriggle room
A developer tried three arguments to get round an adjudicator鈥檚 order to pay its contractor 拢170k. This is what the court said about them
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The perils of progress
So it turns out that the residents of one block of flats at the Greenwich Millennium Village are occasionally forced to sleep on a friend鈥檚 floor to escape noise transmission from their neighbour鈥檚 flat (6 May, page 26).
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Pastry problems
This was an appeal from the decision of judge Seymour on 21 April 2004 in which he dismissed Filobake鈥檚 claim again Rondo and awarded nominal damages against Frampton.Filobake was a manufacturer of filo pastry and wished to extend its product range into samosa pastry. Rondo specialised in the manufacture and ...
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The parent trap
Over recent years many people have criticised the construction industry for not making enough of an effort to attract women recruits.
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How to serve schools
What a feast has been laid out for the building industry by Tony Blair鈥檚 government.
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CommentHere鈥檚 an idea 鈥�
Third-party rights have failed to dispose of collateral warranties. But maybe they could still do so 鈥� and eliminate the hated net contribution clause into the bargain
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Plugging the gaps
星空传媒 relatively airtight dwellings is not rocket science (Letters, 17 June, page 36).
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Easy as JCT
The new suites of JCT contracts are rolling off the presses, the ink is barely dry and already Helen Garthwaite (24 June, page 58) is wanting to amend the forms.
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Colin鈥檚 utopia realised
So Colin Harding (17 June, page 35) proposes a new 鈥渁ll-inclusive contract鈥� linking design consultants and supervisors through a single agreement that defines their individual and collective responsibilities, and expands also to include constructors, specialists and subcontractors.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Stuart MacDonald loves the 1960s and says we should reclaim its brutalist architecture from ham-fisted embellishments
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CommentBeing Frank
Frank Lloyd Wright鈥檚 extraordinary Fallingwater is an object lesson for all architects in how to get the client to want what you want them to want