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Back issues - September 1914
Lessons from Germany: Absent architects and the French Parthenon 鈥�
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CommentGenerals and mercenaries
If construction and warfare have anything in common, it鈥檚 that the top brass position themselves a safe distance from the people on the front line
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CommentWhat are you implying?
The hills of Stockport were alive with implied terms, or so Mowlem and one of its subcontractors, PHI Group, thought. But were they right?
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CommentMoney鈥檚 silver tongue
You can ask an adjudicator to step down from an adjudication but as it is his decision, and his fee, the likelihood is that he鈥檒l find compelling reasons to stay
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Bluefield development
The government wants about 2500 wind turbines constructed in six years, many on the North Sea. This raises interesting contractual issues for those building them 鈥�
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Designers in the dock
The Health and Safety Executive is targeting consultants who do not comply with the CDM Regulations. Two recent cases highlight the dangers of non-compliance
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Demanding satisfaction
Brighton. Buxton. Broadway. Bradford. Britain鈥檚 most lively townscapes gained their individual character because development was in the hands of local specialists. Today most of the country鈥檚 output comes from volume housebuilders, and they work wherever there is a local market.
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CommentIn defence of Peter
A message to letter-writers and sub-editors: we鈥檙e lucky to have Peter Lobban as head of the CITB, and his remuneration package reflects this fact
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CommentHolyrood: The reckoning
Even after the acres of column inches and the yards of screeching headlines dedicated to the creation of the Scottish parliament building, the Fraser report still manages to add another degree of chill.
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CommentDown to brass tacks
Everybody knows court cases are horribly expensive, but then so are 鈥榗heaper鈥� methods such as adjudication and mediation. So here鈥檚 a way to save money
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Comment拢70k a pop
Enforcing an adjudication can be a damned expensive business, especially when there鈥檚 a proce - as one unfortunate subcontractor found out
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Natural justice, common sense
Tony Bingham鈥檚 discussion of McAlpine vs Transco, which concerned the introduction of new material in the course of an adjudication, missed a bit out
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Come on, admit it 鈥�
If you enter into 鈥榳ithout prejudice鈥� negotiations before a trial, can you subsequently produce them in court when it comes to deciding costs?
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CABE convinced
Your coverage of the CABE review of Birmingham鈥檚 new PFI hospital (27 August, page 13) is a distortion of the tone of its report.
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Wriggling-out petitions
I read Nick Lane鈥檚 article 鈥淒on鈥檛 fall for Redmond鈥檚 wind-up鈥� (3 September, page 52) with great interest and learned a lot from his hints to main contractors on how to avoid the consequences of receiving a statutory demand or winding-up petition.