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Who鈥檚 in control?
The defendant contractor secured a contract to decorate the exterior of a building. The claimant was a painter and decorator in partnership with his father and they were instructed by the defendant to carry out the work. The work required the use of scaffolding, but no ladder was provided by ...
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CommentWhat goes around 鈥�
Here鈥檚 a warning to all those clients, and their lawyers, who want to make the granting of extensions conditional on a contractor giving notice about the effects of delay
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CommentNothing comes of nothing
Contractors are forever complaining about disruption on the job, but without hard evidence an adjudicator will award them precisely zero compensation
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Is it worth it?
In recent issues of 星空传媒, the alarm has been raised about the increasing cost of going to adjudication. Now we want you to help us find out the facts
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CommentIt鈥檚 bad news, I鈥檓 afraid
Project managers and clients beware: under certain circumstances, you may fall under the Inland Revenue鈥檚 CIS scheme 鈥� with unpleasant consequences
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Why we said what we said
In your leader 鈥淩ouse 鈥� to Simmons鈥� (15 October, page 3), CABE鈥檚 views of the proposals for the Royal London Hospital are criticised as 鈥渋ll-judged鈥� and 鈥渋ll-timed鈥�.
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Slums for the future
I wonder how many of your readers spotted that the balconies at Barons Place (8 October, page 39) have been installed upside down.
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Tweaking the act
I have just read Tony Bingham鈥檚 article in this week鈥檚 星空传媒 (8 October, page 54). I am aghast at the indecision of review panel number one 鈥� the looking at changes to the Construction Act鈥檚 payment rules 鈥� which surely must have the sense to recognise injustice and abuse when ...
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The wrong kind of demand
Nick Lane is right to sound a warning about using winding-up petitions to make debtors cough up (3 September, page 52).
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Be a record maker
I read with interest the excellent article entitled 鈥淒ear site diary鈥� by Andrew Farrer (8 October, page 34).
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A site issue
Imposing stricter safety regulations on the architect will not make construction safer as they are too far removed from the front line of construction (1 October, page 15).
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Miscalculation
In the commentary accompanying your top 200 consultants feature (1 October, page 45), you say FaberMaunsell has 16,000 staff following acquisition of Oscar Faber in 2001.
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CommentOpen mike: Against CABE
CABE鈥檚 apparently enlightened opinion that architecture is a force for social good conceals a totalitarian approach to human nature. Luckily, however, it鈥檚 wrong
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CommentMean streets
If you want to make a difference to the quality of Britain鈥檚 environment, let鈥檚 have a crack at our ungenerous, confusing and arbitrary signage
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Shifting earth
This was an appeal by Mowlem against an arbitrator鈥檚 award. Mowlem was main contractor on a development of retail premises and had subcontracted the earthworks and associated design and construction of retaining walls to PHI. PHI鈥檚 work essentially entailed construction of terracing to form suitably level areas which could when ...
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CommentDon鈥檛 panic
The housing market. It鈥檚 a national obsession. Doubly so if you work in the construction industry and your memory stretches back to the early 1990s, the big crash and the grisly business of cutting people out of the wreckage of their homes and jobs.
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Time to go 鈥�
Jon Rouse聽The question hanging over much of northern England is: how bad does a neighbourhood have to be before the only thing that can improve it is a bulldozer?