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Summing up聽number 35 – payments into court
In Berwin Leighton's series on legal basics, Joanne Rees explains payments into court
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Law in the electronic age
Electronic data management is the future for construction consultants. It's just terrific. The problem is that the legal and commercial framework doesn't support it yet.
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Clash points
The Woolf reforms have introduced a revolutionary change in legal culture. Has the subcontracting industry woken up to this, and is it ready to change its ways to cope with the new rules?
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Clash points
Specialist contractors are in the same state of uncertainty as everyone else when it comes to post-Woolf litigation but given the abysmal record of the courts pre-Woolf, it couldn't get much worse.
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Make it legal
First person homeowners want a national approach to the cowboy problem that has the force of law. A new bill would give it to them.
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Give it another go
Why abandon buildings when they go out of fashion? With a little imagination, we could recycle the space.
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One night in Baghdad
From exotic ethnicity in Isfahan to showy vulgarity in Nevada; hotels should offer more than nylon sheets and shower caps.
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Falling standards
How can we prevent fatal failures in the enforcement of building standards, as seen in Turkey and Ashford?
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Everything has changed
First person Those who continually complain that the industry’s payment provisions haven’t improved, stop moaning and look again.
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Care for the community
The government needs to help us shape our own communities before British cities become totally segregated by wealth.
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Past improvements
The refurbishment of old buildings makes more sense than ever before – but only if it’s for the right reasons.
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Al fresco fiasco
If decent provision were made for eating and drinking outside, Britain’s urban landscape would be a lot more appealing.
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The pleasure principle
First person Functional buildings are all very well, but thank goodness we can still erect structures just to cheer ourselves up.
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Please relieve me
Second opinion Public toilets may be out of sight but they shouldn’t be out of mind – so why so many drastic design faults?
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The knife at our throats
The Revenue’s “concessions” on its new tax rules will cause major damage. This is a plea to John Prescott for help.
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Real world architecture
Architecture is self-obsessed and self-indulgent when it needs to be part of commercial and technical reality.
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Prime suspect
If the future of construction lies in the hands of today’s get-rich-quick builders, what future has architecture?
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The selective approach
Prime contracting is a great idea, but only for projects that lend themselves to the approach. Not all do.
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Reasons to be cheerful
A look at the impact of the Egan report by the man that reported on construction five years ago.
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Re-educating clients
Contractors can t make all the changes Sir John Egan called for on their own. Clients have to play their part, too.