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Charted Territory
Ove Arup's Columbus is billed as a project document management system but, apart from the nifty viewing facilities, it hasn't really discovered anything new yet.
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Home From Hell
The combination of an incompetent trainee surveyor, two wrongly issued certificates and a difficult "domestic" client resulted in 11 years of legal and financial nightmares.
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Cases In Point
Court cases challenging adjudications often focus on whether or not the adjudicator had jurisdiction. Maybe it is time to allow the adjudicator to have some say in deciding his own jurisdiction.
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Rules For Taking Penalties
The Scottish Law Commission is proposing to move the goal posts over penalty clauses by removing the traditional link with pre-estimates of damage.
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Novation without tears
Novation of the consultant's appointment can offer real benefits to a client, but it must do the work to make it work. Otherwise, it can end up with legal nonsense that risks being thrown out of court.
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Know Your Limits
Limited liability partnerships protect individuals from expensive claims. But that is not the only way they differ from traditional partnerships. Why should you consider switching sides?
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Materials whole-life costs
精东影视 Performance Group's guide to building components' lifespans and life costs tackles domestic kitchen units.
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Tracking system
Recruitment consultant Richard Milsom on the strategies his firm uses to find the leaders of tomorrow.
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Newcastle's budget halls
A new international passenger terminal has been added to a terminal at Newcastle International Airport. The addition, along with the refurbishment of the existing terminal, cost 拢27m and increases the airport's capacity to 4 million passengers a year. Designed by Crispin Wride Architectural Design Studio and engineer Gibb, it is ...
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The West Country's Stansted
Opened earlier this month, the new 拢27m terminal to Bristol International Airport replaces a building on the other side of the runway. The clear-cut rectangular building beneath an oversailing canopy roof and behind clear-glazed walls stands as the symbolic gateway to the West Country. Its 17 500 m2 area, which ...
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City slackers
Nick Raynsford is about to tell City fund managers that construction is a safe, sexy investment, but with shares in free-fall and hot money piling into the Internet, will they pay any attention?
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Ross Taylor
Meet Bovis Lend Lease's new group president. The 38-year-old Australian who brokered the deal between the companies has moved to London, with a brief to integrate the two and work out where the new business is going.
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Uphill struggle
The centrepiece of a 拢57m sports centre in Milton Keynes is a 170 m long indoor ski slope with real snow. Concreting the 15掳 slope was just one problem this multipurpose building presented.
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Reeling them in
IT: E-commerce Causeway Technologies boss Phil Brown has spent the past year pulling together all the different services he needs to lure customers to his e-marketplace, buildingworks.com.
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Stop right there!
If someone brings an adjudication against you when they have no right, do you have to go through the motions and hope to get it overturned later, or can you get a court to halt it?
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Conspiracy theory
This is the story of how a consulting engineer and a developer misled a client over practical completion, the role a collateral warranty played and how more than 拢1m was spent in pursuit of less than 拢13 000 damages.
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How to lose before you start
The Construction Act's payment rules have been overshadowed by adjudication. However, in tandem, they give contractors a super way to pole-axe an unwary client.
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Arbitration usurped
In the first of a new series on dispute resolution methods, we look at how arbitration has failed to achieve the objectives set out for it in the Arbitration Act 1996.
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Let’s get it together
Uncoordinated specifications can result in chaos and even claims. The architect (and its spec writer) could do something about it – if only they could get involved from the start.