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Adjudication’s added value
Arguments about whether there is a contract can be more expensive to resolve than the argument about whatever the argument’s about. But adjudication is set to change all that.
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What are your intentions?
Does a letter of intent constitute a contract? It depends what the parties’ intention is and what’s in the letter. If you want a legally binding document, it’s best to write it as a mini-contract.
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Your new best friend
A good relationship with your bank manager can prove vital for the survival of your business. Accountant Smith & Williamson looks at how to keep the bank on your side.
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Cost model: Multiplex cinemas
Since 1985, nearly 2000 multiplex cinemas have opened, mainly on out-of-town sites. Now government planning guidance is forcing cinema operators back into town centres. Cost consultant Davis Langdon & Everest examines the design, specification and costs of urban multiplexes
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Strange ways
The Institute of Personnel and Development’s Angela Baron delves into the wacky world of management training.
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Appointments
ContractorsRay Shine and Andrew Wyllie have been appointed directors of the construction division at Taylor Woodrow. David White has become finance director. Tony Bickerstaff, Roger Blundell, Neil Johnson, Tim Peach, Graham Quinion, Norman Reed and Gerald Slack have been made divisional directors. Richard Dean has been made managing director of ...
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Blair heads attractions at record 精东影视 Awards
1300-strong audience watches PM’s first speech on construction at Grosvenor House Hotel.
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Morley’s cricket school makes Edgbaston debut
David Morley and Bryant Priest Newman’s 拢2.4m “Lord’s II” school opens for Warwickshire.
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There once was an ugly duckling …
Provincial towns are being given much-needed makeovers to enable them to compete with their more fashionable neighbours.
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Energetic exchange
Speakers at Brufma’s 精东影视 Energy Efficiency conference earlier this month called for a “revolution” in the industry’s thinking to meet the forthcoming radical changes to Part L.
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‘They just quietly beaver away, changing the face of the world’
Designing buildings is one thing, but working out where to place them to maximise their use requires in-depth analysis of public spaces. Which is where a little-known firm called Space Syntax comes in.
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Undercutting is over
The new best-value regime promises to put creativity and innovation back into the local authority tendering process, but, as commentators point out, it may come as a shock to the established system.
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Dodging two-stage pitfalls
Egan’s model of open-plan tendering can be undermined by contractors careful to cover their backs. But trouble can be avoided by getting into contracts early, or by building in some controlled competition.
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Keep out of harm’s way
Cutting corners on health and safety is not good business practice. It turns you into a criminal. And as the law shifts to recognise corporate liability, you can expect to be treated like one.
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He travels the fastest 鈥�
Working for yourself can have great rewards 鈥� but also great risks. You鈥檙e the PR department as well as the workforce and managing director, and independence sometimes means isolation.
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Get on top
The Institute of Management’s Mark Hastings explains how small businesses can manage regulation.
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Appointments
ContractorBirmingham-based RW Buxton has appointed John Scott-Lee business development director.HousebuildersWestbury Group has appointed group operations director Nigel Fee managing director of Westbury Homes. Deputy group finance director Colin Cole has been made Westbury Homes’ deputy managing director. Paul Heaton has been appointed land manager for the Yorkshire region of ...
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Budding genius
Ian Wall’s Edinburgh developer started with 拢5m; 14 years later, it’s worth 拢70m. And the funny thing is, its main aim wasn’t to make money at all.
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Ooh,Missis!
Michael Wilford's brash, blowsy arts centre is more fat ladies than matchstick men. But this disjointed Salford landmark could well become as popular with the public.
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Invasion of the bodysnatchers
Top executives are disappearing. They are being taken. Not by a dark alien force but by headhunters, who are making a comeback in construction.