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You forgot Scotland (again!)
You wrote a lot about the the changes to the 星空传媒 Regulations in England and Wales, but again you fail to mention the 星空传媒 (Scotland) Act 2003, which alters the building standards system in Scotland from 1 May this year.Sue Bush, building control manager, Inverclyde council
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At risk from the neighbours
The respondent commenced excavation and piling works on a property neighbouring the appellants鈥� property and served a party wall notice after the works had commenced. Cracks appeared in the appellants鈥� property, which the appellants alleged were caused by the works being carried out by the respondent.
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CommentTwist and shout
liquidated damages clause has advantages for employer and contractor. So how come the latter is so keen to wriggle out of it when it comes into play?
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CommentLiving with The Others
Hovering above the real people doing real jobs on real site is a vast ghostly world of contract documents and legal obligations. How should the two interact?
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CommentEvolutionary politics
Thumping great overspend though it was, Holyrood could help the government turn its current survival-of-the-fittest approach into a best-practice blueprint
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Come on, Colin
Colin Harding鈥檚 jaundiced and outdated view of the modern UK construction industry ignores the tremendous progress made in productivity, innovation and profitability over the past 10 years (17 December, page 21).
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Wonders & blunders
Nick Mason pins a medal on a relic of Victorian engineering, but regrets his mispent youth as an architecture critic
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The whiff of bias
A&S Enterprises Ltd, the claimant, sought to enforce the judgment of an adjudicator against Kema Holdings Ltd. The defendant was ordered to pay 拢89,475.86. The claimant was a building contractor carrying out work in respect of a development in Alfreton, Derbyshire. The contract was a JCT 1998 Edition with ...
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Watch your backs 鈥�
The Office of Fair Trading is planning up to 65 investigations into anti-competitive behaviour in construction. What should you do if one of them is aimed at you?
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One in the eye for Amicus
Despite the concerns of Amicus about the use of retina scans for site security at Heathrow Terminal 5 (17 December, page 9), I can only think that anything that prevents unwanted access to sites is a good thing.
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Alsop鈥檚 fables
Frivolity, we know, is part of the festive season, but nonetheless it should be no excuse for sloppy journalism.
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Playing by the same rules
I read with interest the article on the Glendoe hydroelectric power project in Scotland (3 December, page 10).
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Punishing penalty
P&O operated a freight service and a yard at the port at Liverpool. In the yard P&O employees loaded and off-loaded containers to and from ferries. The containers were lifted from the HGVs by large trucks. An employee of P&O standing in the yard was struck by one of these ...
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Interview: Rupert Jackson
Just three months into the job, the judge in charge of the Technology and Construction Court has already established a reformist agenda.
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Get 鈥檈m young
Andrew Williams鈥� article 鈥淭he QS鈥� apprentice鈥� (19 November, page 33) raises some interesting issues about how we train future practitioners, and will no doubt provoke much debate.
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CommentThe dismal profession
How has architecture come to be such a regulated, disciplined, controlled and artistically emasculated business? And what can be done to save it?