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CommentMultiplex on the spot
The FA may have other things on its mind than the construction of Wembley, but news that the stadium is presently hosting a good old-fashioned firefight between sub and main contractors should give anyone left at Soho Square additional cause for concern.
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The Holyrood treatment
Cary Grant could have given a valuable lesson in construction procurement to the 鈥渃lient鈥� for the Scottish parliament building (23 July, page 50) 鈥� or the client for any large or complex development, come to that.
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It鈥檚 just cement to be
With the introduction of the European Landfill Directive, the UK鈥檚 remediation industry must face the fact that it has to find an alternative to a dig-and-dump strategy for contaminated land (16 July, page 14).
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A fair point
I was reading the article 鈥淏eauty is but skin deep 鈥︹�� (18 June, pages 26-28) and noticed that you show a photograph of the Saga headquarters in Folkestone, Kent, to illustrate the leaky windows that it has been cursed with. I would just like to point out that the photograph ...
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Dear Tony ...
I think the 鈥渁nswer on a postcard鈥� to Tony Bingham鈥檚 question of how to gather evidence of site disruptions at the time they occur (16 July, page 52) is to keep a site diary. A well-kept and detailed diary is invaluable to anyone having to prepare or determine claims for ...
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鈥� or, perhaps, Dear Diary
The answer has to be site diaries maintained by all supervisory staff from trade supervisor upwards. There should be an item in the bill for them, their content specified in the spec and, for programmes using the Society of Construction Law protocol, a withholding of a percentage of the account ...
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Third time unlucky
This is a successful appeal by the respondent, Kingston Upon Hull City Council, from the decision of the Court of Appeal reported in Legal Briefing No.8 of 2004. The applicant had worked for the respondent local authority as an environmental health officer and had been driven from his job by ...
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The tyranny of taste
The dead hand of totalitarian modernism should be prised from the shoulders of living architects: it was no more than a style among many others
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Counting all the costs
In the issue of 16 July, your leader referred to 鈥渃onsistently reduced construction costs鈥�, and Alistair McAlpine commented that 鈥渁 cheap price and a silver tongue鈥� were generally accepted as 鈥渁n alternative to expertise鈥�.
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A binding non-binding decision
Tim Elliott (16 July, page 51) applauds the decision of His Honour Judge Thornton in William Verry Ltd vs North West London Communal Mikrah.
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Neanderthal Man alive and well
I was rather surprised to read your comment 鈥淣eanderthal Man no longer roams the sites of the land, terrorising small contractors with the assistance of fine legal minds鈥� (16 July, page 3). My job for the past 10 years has been to defend my employer (a subcontractor) against precisely that. ...
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A reader writes: The facts of death
After our interview with the family of Patrick O鈥橲ullivan, who was killed on the Wembley site, a reader gives us his experience of a fatality during a concrete pour
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Wonders & blunders
Tony Bingham is left aesthetically stranded by the RAC control centre on the M6, but the Bilbao Guggenheim comes to the rescue
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Conspiracy uncovered
Dominic Helps If you鈥檙e in any doubt about what constitutes collusive tendering, the Office of Fair Trading has just published a decision that makes it absolutely clear
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It鈥檚 a long, long road
Tony Bingham Those canny Irish have put their 拢4bn roadbuilding programme on hold until they see what happens to the English experiment with design-and-build
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The pensions black hole
Patrick Kennedy and Caoimhe O鈥橬eill If you sign a contract with a firm that has an underfunded final salary pension scheme, it could drag you into the mire too
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This month Legal Aid
Our experts explain the ins and outs of building insurance, outline the many ways an expert QS can resolve wrangles over costs, and look at who pays when a public sector client clashes with a private utility company over delays
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