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CommentThe sound of fiddles
OK, the request may be a bit iffy, not 100% legit, but if I turn a blind eye so as to get the job, surely there's nothing wrong with that? Hey, what's that siren鈥�?
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Tear down the wall
It was just a throwaway line in Gordon Brown's excruciatingly prolix Budget speech, but its impact on contractors may be immense.
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For a few dollars less
Stuffed by an adjudicator? Dry-gulched and embittered? Looking for justice? Well, help is at hand because fast-track arbitration has just ridden back into town 鈥�
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Crack the code
Designers are increasingly liable for health and safety breaches, and are increasingly finding themselves in the dock as a result. Here's how to stay out of trouble
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Our blood, our money
The battle for contracts in Iraq has begun. As we were in the firing line, we ought to get a fair share of the work 鈥� before the French find a way back in
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Read the instructions
Tony Bingham's article "Never trust a copper" (21 March, page 59) raises the issue of low water draw-off, which we feel deserves comment.Many thousands of copper pipework installations are made each year, including those in properties that will use water sporadically (show homes, for instance), and there are very few ...
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Following Foster
If you want to build the next Reichstag, you'll need to be aware of Germany's planning and building laws and how they vary between the federal states
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Leading the evolution
To all appearances, little has changed since the last 星空传媒 Awards a year ago.
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Designing for imbeciles
The UK's regulations assume a high level of human stupidity, says Barry Munday – plus Stewart McColl tells of a clash between money and morality
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Getting what you deserve
Why are parties so willing to open themselves up to trouble by beginning work without agreeing a price? A recent quantum meruit case serves as a warning
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Decision dodgers
Contractual disputes are getting bogged down in phoney challenges to the adjudicator's authority and spurious arguments about enforcement
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The risks of going to court
The claimant, Mr Islam, sought remuneration in respect of his services as the chartered accountant during the period May 1999 to July 2001, when he ran the defendant Mrs Ali's late husband's accountancy business. He had received around 拢72,000 for part of this period and sought about a further 拢84,000, ...
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Safe, unless you're cooking
We would like to respond to your leader in the 14 March issue. Although we are aware of the recent court ruling in respect to the Sahib Foods fire in 1994, it would be wrong to assume that the specification of combustible composite panels will automatically create a problem for ...
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Not a holiday camp
A decade after it was launched, journalists have finally been given their first glimpse of Britain's biggest and most awesome building project, Heathrow Terminal 5. There's not much to see yet – just a few cranes and the odd dumper truck rumbling through the dirt (pages 24-27). But this is ...
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Calling like-minded lawyers
I read with interest Colin Harding's article "A paradise for parasites" (21 March, page 37). I write as a lawyer who has been involved in PFI deals in the industry (for Carillion and Bechtel) and in private practice with a firm fully committed to Rethinking Construction.Although lawyers, among other advisers, ...
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America's playground
Was the war against Saddam undertaken to liberate Iraq for the Iraqi people, or to liberate Iraqi assets for US capitalism? The signs so far are rather ominous
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Premature adjudication
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances – and heaven help them if they get the timing wrong