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QSs: the disaster managers
Further to the debate on the future of quantity surveying, perhaps if the role of the QS were taken more seriously, the Olympics 鈥� not to mention the Scottish parliament and Wembley stadium 鈥� would have been properly budgeted in the first place. The Scottish parliament ended up costing 10 ...
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Not from round here
Not from round here Sir Digby Jones is right to highlight markets such as China and India as potentially fertile areas for exporting British PFI expertise.
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Without good reason
The claimant brought proceedings seeking a declaration that an expert determination was not final and binding because the expert had materially departed from the terms of reference and had failed to provide adequate reasons.
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Taking sides
The parties entered into a JCT With Contractor鈥檚 Design contract for the construction of 114 residential apartments in Manchester. This case concerns the enforcement of an adjudicator鈥檚 decision. During the adjudication, Crosby Homes raised three jurisdictional challenges:1 There was no jurisdiction under the 鈥渟ide agreements鈥�2 ...
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CommentWho are you today?
Contract administrators are in the sometimes awkward position of having to act for the client one minute and being impartial the next. Here鈥檚 what happened when one got the balance wrong
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When justice prevails
Jonathan Lewis and Mark London Ever suffered from an adjudicator鈥檚 unfair decision? If so, the Humes vs Homes case will make for encouraging reading: the court recognised the adjudicator鈥檚 decision as wrong and refused to enforce it
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How to handle snakes
Collecting money from debtors in the construction industry can be like playing snakes and ladders, says Claire Sandbrook. But there are ways to play the game to ensure you get to the top
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CommentThe Polish Olympics
The Beijing Olympics are mainly being built by British firms, but if we don鈥檛 want our own Games built by eastern European labour, we need to train our young people now
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CommentLet me draw you an analogy ...
Adam Poole and Simon Foxell聽Should we rush to launch our grand campaign to achieve zero-carbon buildings asap? Or should we settle back and watch a film first?
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CommentTen reasons to do the right thing
You don鈥檛 have to cut carbon emissions just because your conscience tells you to. It鈥檚 good for business as well, says Stuart Wallace of the New Economics Foundation
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CommentUnsupervised
While the upper echelons were attending high-profile weddings and the awards, those in the lower pay grades were free to fit solar panels facing the wrong way and misinterpret design instructions ...
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Proving the rule
I read with surprise your assertions in the article 鈥淚llegal T5 Worker Deported鈥� (20 April, page 11).
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The suppliers are mobilised
To deliver zero-carbon homes on the necessary scale within a decade, and to address the national housing crisis, we need mandatory national standards and implementation (13 April, page 13).
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This code is broken
The government and its quangos think they can save the world by introducing a Code for Sustainable Homes that fails to recognise where homes are built.
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Special needs
Following your leader article (13 April, page 3), it would make qualifying the workforce a little bit more palatable for the specialists if there was parity of costs in our industry between mainstream activities and the specialist organisations.
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Do it like the Canadians ...
As a Canadian I鈥檓 surprised that the UK does not follow the standards in my country, where all buildings are timber and all are sprinklered. Even private homes have sprinklers and we all sleep well at night.
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Comment鈥� or the Americans
Of course there is always a risk of fire when you have a wooden frame, but with the American way of fireproof plasterboard and fireproof insulation, the risk is a lot lower. Also a sprinker system is par for the course.