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Setting a new standard
The first standard form partnering contract has been launched, and here the man who helped to draft it explains why the industry is going to like what it sees.
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The RIBA bites back
Robert Akenhead’s last article (“Who’d employ an architect”, 28 July), was a root-and-branch attack on the RIBA’s new standard contract, which, he argued, unreasonably limited an architect’s liabilities and heaped obligations on the client. Here, two members of the institute give their response.
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Cost model: Commercial research laboratories
It has been decided that UK plc’s economic wellbeing depends on its scientific base, so billions of pounds of investment are being poured into it. The snag for construction is that labs are unlike other buildings. So, in this month’s cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest looks at what goes ...
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Opinion poll
Do you know what your staff really think of you? Use an employee attitude survey to find out, says Hays Montrose’s Rob Smith.
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Appointments
ContractorTaylor Woodrow has appointed Jeremy Sampson group general counsel. He will be responsible for legal services.HousebuilderStamford Homes has appointed David Connolly land director at its head office in Peterborough.Consultants Turner & Townsend has promoted Mike Moore to director of its operation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Project manager and quantity surveyor ...
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Cost update
This quartely analysis looks at materials prices for disposal systems and the latest wage agreements
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The top 50 contractor's web sites
The first-ever league table of contractors web sites is about to be published, and it shows that you don t have to be big to rule the net. Here s how the rankings were compiled, and how to challenge for the top spot in 2001.
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Dickon Robinson
Modest, intelligent and visionary, the Peabody Trust development director has an uncanny knack of solving problems before anybody else notices them.
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You haven’t been paying attention
After years of penny-pinching neglect, Britain s squalid schools are being completely re-evaluated and this time, design is at the top of the agenda.
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Architects’ fees survey 2000
Ask a brickie how he s doing and you ll hear that, not only is the industry fine, but more and more money is finding its way into his back pocket. Ask an architect, however, and, as Mirza and Nacey Research s figures published today suggest, you ll hear a ...
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How the West 12 was won
Assemble a 1500 tonne steel bridge on the fragile roof of a shopping centre while keeping the shops open and dodging rotten fruit? It's all in a day's work in the badlands of Shepherd's Bush
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Out of bounds
Section 105(2) of the Construction Act is a real dog s dinner. Under it, certain site works are not covered. So, what happens when someone calls an adjudicator on an exempt site?
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Whose loss is it anyway?
A company that hasn t suffered direct loss from defective work can t sue for damages under the provisions of common law, according to the judgment in one of the longest disputes in construction history.
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The price of freedom
Adjudication may be a right, but that doesn t stop firms from adding clauses to deter people from exercising it which makes the Construction Act more costly to run than it need be.
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Talking it over
In the latest article in our guide to dispute resolution methods, we look at how mediation works which it does, extremely well. The mystery is why so few parties use it.
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Survival skills
Andrew Gibbons of Moores Rowland Management Solutions on the skills you ll need in the future and where to get them.
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Appointments
Contractors John Howell has been promoted to managing director at Bovis Lelliott, the London-based Lend ease subsidiary that specialises in refurbishment. Chris Pearce has been promoted to director of Payne 精东影视 Contractors in Southampton. Housebuilders Beazer Homes Bedford has appointed Stephen Doherty, previously with Barratt Homes, land director. Charles Church ...
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The civic surgeon
Dashing around the country asking people what they think of where they live may be taxing, but EDAW s Kevin Murray believes you can t do urban design without it.
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Oversized, overhyped and over here
When US shopping colossus Wal-Mart bought Asda, it promised to revolutionise the way Brits buy their baked beans and a lot more besides. Everything would be bigger, better and under one roof. Now the Bristol flagship is open, have the Yanks pulled it off?
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The loaded generation
Architects Robert Gaukroger and Scott Pryde don't wait for work they go out and find it. They're part of a new breed that is using business savvy as well as design skill to get rich.