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CommentCheck, please
In the JCT design-and-build form, an application for payment automatically becomes the sum due. So how can an employer avoid paying an inflated bill?
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Viva Bambi!
Nick Henchie's claim that the Be Collaborative contract offers little in the way of practical assistance is given short shrift by one of the contract's writers
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Back from the dead
Just when it appeared to be gently ebbing away, construction's strategic forum has sprung back to life.
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You have to agree to disagree
This is a decision of the Court of Appeal. Wilson maintained both during the adjudication and before Judge MacKay (at a hearing to enforce that decision at first instance) that the contract that was the subject of the adjudication had been made not with him personally but with a company, ...
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Here starteth the lesson
An initiative to promote training on social housing projects should show the industry how to shed its insecurities and secure its future
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CommentGive 'em their due
Stonecarvers at the Royal Courts of Justice job in 1880 lost out when the employer withheld money. If only they'd had the Construction Act to protect them 鈥�
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Just a few complicated points
It's not easy, but firms negotiating PFI deals must identify the risks they're running. Here's how to go about the job
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Wonders & blunders
Dawn Gibbins is drawn to the natural light of Belfast City Hall, but the gloom of industrial sheds has her voting with her feet
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A reasonable bill
This was one of the final decisions of Judge Bowsher QC before his retirement from the bench. Having found in favour of the defendants, he then had to consider the question of costs. Both defendants sought their costs on an indemnity basis.
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Who've you been seeing?
Natural justice and adjudication can be a jealous and suspicious couple. But a recent case has led to guidelines that could smooth out some of the tensions
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It could be you
Imagine making a mistake that makes you liable for more money than a Lotto jackpot 鈥� and then finding you don't have PI cover. How likely is that?
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Private space vs open plan
Paul Morrell ("Are you being served?", 17 October, page 41) commented that we ought to know how much well designed offices aid productivity.
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Not in my name
I was less than impressed with your wild editing of my letter to make a politically correct point (7 November, page 35).
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To be remote, be intimate
In relation to your article "Good Morning, Vietnam" (5 September, pages 38-41), I would like to point out that many outsource companies are trying to produce information without knowledge or experience of the UK.
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Welcoming our guest workers
David Blunkett's imperious asylum policy 鈥� outlined in the Queen's Speech 鈥� may have profound implications for construction.
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Granting a sultan's wish
Architects are capable of anything 鈥� as long as they're given unlimited funds, resources and co-operation, and have no competition. Ah, them were the days 鈥�