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Tolson III: The Reckoning
Tune into the latest episode of our real-life renovation saga, where our hero and his family finally take possession and live happily ever after 鈥� apart from the snagging
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Before BUMA
You state that the Hyde Housing Association scheme in south London by Polish company BUMA, which cost 拢1260/m2, 鈥渂rings prefabrication within Housing Corporation budgets for the first time鈥� (23 July, page 12).
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Name that tree
To the timber industry, the names of timber, wood, hardwood and softwood are fundamental.
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Silence is not golden
The appellant provided architectural services to the respondents with regards to four projects. The respondents failed to pay the appellant for his services and he brought a claim for payment of his fees. The judge at first instance found that an agreement for fees to be paid was implied (an ...
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Mark my words, Gordon
If the chancellor thinks that his backing the Quality Mark will rid the industry of cowboy builders, he鈥檚 obviously got a lot to learn about cowboy customers
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Protocol鈥檚 progress
The Society of Construction Law鈥檚 rules for handling delay can now be incorporated into your contract 鈥� with dramatic consequences for the programme
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CommentCompulsory purchases
Two legal textbooks have just been published, and if you鈥檙e in the business of fighting or resolving disputes, you simply have to have them on your shelf
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Exit the engineer
The ICE form has long required engineers to resolve 鈥榤atters of dissatisfaction鈥�. Well, that鈥檚 all over now, because the seventh edition has new rules
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The nuclear option
The flow of interim payments has come to a stop and it looks ominous. What to do? Wait for an adjudication 鈥� or go for broke with a winding-up petition?
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Quality is key
I would like to take this opportunity to respond to your invitation for views on whether or not the Quality Mark can be resurrected (2 July, page 15).
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Stuck in first gear
I read with interest your leader article 鈥淎ssisted Suicide鈥� and 鈥淲atts: BRE is on a precipice鈥� (23 July, page 12) on the DTI鈥檚 proposal to end the practice of ringfencing money for construction research and development.
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Charity begins at home
No, I do not agree the industry should be funding migrant workers for skills training (30 July, page 15). Do British tradesmen get the same treatment if we work on the Continent? Maybe it鈥檚 about time Britain stopped being such a 鈥渂leeding heart鈥� and actually concentrated on solving our own ...
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Ships that pass on the motorway
As a regular passer of the RAC control centres at Bristol and Walsall (30 July, page 34), perhaps someone could enlighten me about the obviously nautical inspiration in the designs. The centre at Bristol screams Noah鈥檚 Ark (when not attracting divine thunderbolts, causing the computer system to shut down!) and ...
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When will you pay me?
The plight of Spectrum, the fit-out contractor that called in the administrators last week, illustrates why passions are running so high on the subject of payment (see news).
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Divorced from reality
When Whitehall split responsibility for construction between departments, it was obvious things would get messy 鈥� but then the industry has always been misunderstood
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Twitch and its yours
There are many reasons why one side to a dispute might claim that there was no contract, but the courts will do their very best to prove them wrong
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Take cover
Horbury 星空传媒 Systems Limited had erected ceilings within in a cinema complex. The ceiling to one of the cinemas collapsed, and the whole complex had been closed for several weeks. Clause 4.1 of the insurance policy said that Hampden Insurance would indemnify Horbury 星空传媒 Systems 鈥渋n respect of 鈥� ...
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CommentThe Butler test
Adjudicators, like prime ministers, rely on expert evidence to come to decisions. But what if they鈥檙e given duff information that reinforces their own bias?