Opinion 鈥� Page 586
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Record time
Following the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in 2001, JDM entered into a contract with DEFRA to construct burial sites and infrastructure works. Under the contract, JDM was to be paid a reasonable rate for such labour and materials as it provided. JDM produced timesheets to back up its ...
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The NEC: A user's guide
Changing a partnering contract isn't like changing a brand of cereal 鈥� but the contract writers could take a lesson in clear English from the back of the packet
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CommentPrivate prejudice
You may be aware of the extraordinary case of CWS vs ICL, and if so, you probably have one overriding question: what on earth was going on in the judge's mind?
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All the difference
It doesn't just make you feel all warm and gooey 鈥� a bit of gratitude is worth as much as hard cash if it helps you with marketing, productivity, legal disputes, morale 鈥�
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Spreading the risk
If you are thinking of joint venturing with another contractor on a project, make sure you avoid joint liabilities if the other party suddenly goes belly-up
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CommentWonders & blunders
Mike Driver bends a reverential knee to a Finnish church but makes the sign of the cross before a north London office block 鈥�
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You've been warned
Your article "Click to Survive" (30 January, page 36) was thought-provoking and timely.
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Marking your cards
George Brumwell鈥檚 hopes of saving lives by registering all foreign workers with the CSCS card scheme (13 February, page 14) is flawed.
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No excuses
Your lead news article on 6 February, "Multiplex warned 'safety is a serious concern with PC Harrington'" highlights just how far we have to go.
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Guarding your patch
I can imagine how some of our readers will react to this month鈥檚 cover feature on the move by commercial developers into the residential sector. Some housebuilders will be outraged at the sheer brass neck of the Lipton family and their suggestion that housebuilding is so inefficient that it will ...
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Exceptions rule
No, no, of course insurers don't try anything to avoid paying out on an all-risks policy. Still, just to be sure, apply a magnifying glass to that small print 鈥�
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CommentThe silent service
Adjudicators aren't private eyes 鈥� or inquiry judges 鈥� looking into every detail of a case. They're paid just to assess the arguments 鈥� then keep their mouths shut
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Don't build Crossrail 鈥�
it is an astronomically expensive way of depopulating our capital city. Far more egalitarian would be to spend the money on housing subsidies in central London
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Victims of the system
It's been a bad week for the paperclip posse. On Tuesday, the government and the Tories called for a mass cull of civil servants.
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Are you considering an Italian job?
Berlusconi's push to bring private finance into public works could be a nice little earner for UK firms. But there may be constitutional hitches ahead 鈥�
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A rise in pre-profit tax
Sorry about this, but there are some grim changes to tax law in the pipeline, and the effect will be to make consultants look much harder at the jobs they take on