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Credit where it's due
We were delighted to see two of our bridge projects, Thames Gateway Bridge and Wembley Bridge, were given coverage (16 February, pages 13 and 15). We would be even more delighted if Halcrow, the engineer that we are working with, was also given credit 鈥� particularly as it ...
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C'mon Rudi
Two points arising from Rudi Klein's wishlist ("C'mon everybody", 23 January, page 49).
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A Cambridge correction
With regard to your news story on page 13 of your 30 January issue, "Sir Robert McAlpine in row over 拢21m Cambridge Lab", there was an adjudication in early 2003 between the University of Cambridge and Sir Robert McAlpine relating to delays to the project, which was settled at the ...
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Riddles and fiddles
You may not be able to find a T5 worker who made 拢55,000, or explain where Dennis Lenard's 300,000 workers are hiding, but you can get a dodgy CSCS card tomorrow
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How late is too late?
Missing a deadline in a contract can have dire consequences, but you may not be surprised to learn that in construction some deadlines are stricter than others
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Spec savers
If you're expecting someone to do a load of work for you on a speculative basis, you'd better keep reminding them that that's the deal 鈥� or you'll end up paying
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CommentGripping stuff
Professional negligence claims can be damned difficult, so is it asking too much to create a breed of adjudicators capable of grasping the issues?
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The cynic's bestiary
As you'd expect, a doctrine such as partnering that preaches co-operation for the greater good will be met with scepticism. Here's how to identify and tackle it
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Guilt by association
Contractors may feel a strange empathy this week with those at the centre of the Hutton inquiry.
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Keep taking the supplements
The new Change Management Supplement hopes to give the Delay and Disruption Protocol a contractual role 鈥� but some of it is very hard to swallow
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CommentThe truth about Ricky
A reader writes -聽In the latest column by 星空传媒 readers, Peter Starbuck attacks Ricky Tomlinson's account of events leading to the trial of the Shrewsbury two 鈥� or was it seven?
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A matter of interest
This was an appeal by the claimant against a costs order made by the first instance judge following a successful appeal in respect of the sum of money awarded to him as damages. The judge had awarded the claimant 拢81,182 plus interest on a total claim for over 拢4.3m, but ...
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C'mon everybody
Here are 10 steps to making the world a better place to do business in 鈥� and all can be adopted without converting to Buddhism, becoming celibate or giving up alcohol
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CommentShadows and doubt
An adjudicator's decision can be thrown out over the merest hint of unfairness. Good news for the system's integrity, bad news for parties left in limbo
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A turn for the worse
A decade of revolutionary culture change seems to have culminated in the triumph of a class of supervisor bureaucrats. The real workers are back where they started
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You鈥檒l pay for this
Why are construction leaders so reluctant to join the political fray over tuition fees?
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Scotland is freezing
The Human Rights Act limited Scottish claimants' rights to freeze defendants' assets before judgment. But a recent case may encourage this tool to be used more