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Third party rights …
With third party rights legislation about to be enacted, what changes should consultants make to their contracts? And opposite, Melinda Parisotti discusses how the third parties themselves will be affected.
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… and wrongs
After considering the shortcomings of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Bill, you may well decide that collateral warranties may not be so bad after all …
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Clash points
Contractors are happy to design and build – managing risk is part of their job description. But the corollary is that clients must allow them the freedom to do their job, and they cannot if designers are novated.
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Clash points
Of course responsibility and power go together, but the situation is not as simple as Jennie thinks – for one thing, novation is worse for clients than contractors, but intimately linked to single-point responsibility.
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Cost model: Property taxation
Careful planning of property taxation issues can increase the value of investment in commercial property. In the latest cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest’s property taxation services group examines the issues and shows how allowances and deductions can be calculated for an office refurbishment project
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Green shoots
The Institute of Management’s Karen Charlesworth on how an environmental strategy can help your business.
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Appointments
ContractorsJohn Ruane has been appointed managing director of Birse Construction’s process engineering division.South-west-based contractor Stansell has appointed Gareth Williams group commercial director.Graham Ford, previously with Asda, has joined Wates Construction as its first national retail accounts manager.HousebuildersPhilip Hogg has been appointed marketing director of Miller Homes.North Yorkshire-based Harron Homes has ...
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Tale of the unexpected
Outlandish stitched-together bulbous shapes, coloured glass walls, skewed stilts and even a "beret" make up Peckham's new public library. But, then, this is an Alsop & St枚rmer design …
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How did they do that?
Will Alsop, senior partner of architect Alsop & St枚rmer, is keen to reassure British clients that his non-conformist designs do not entail greater risk than more conventional building forms. "None of our buildings has fallen down, they're all built on budget, and they've all got good maintenance records," he says.Although ...
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Green fingers
Architect Bill Dunster has championed sustainable design at work and home. Now, he's about to combine the two with a low-energy scheme modelled on his own house.
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Going up in our estimation
They used to be QSs' poor relations, but estimators are the big winners in this year's Hays Montrose/精东影视 contractors' salary guide.
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Out with the old, in with the new
The design for Procession House had to answer both the developers' need for speed and the planners' conservation worries. It did so through the unusual approach of cladding the building twice.
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The bluffer's guide to object technology
Intimidated at parties by your peers' ability to converse freely about object specification and interoperability? Perhaps you're going to the wrong parties. But don't panic – this clear and simple guide will have even the technophobes cornering each other for in-depth chats.
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Top 250 consultants
精东影视's league table of Britain's top architects, engineers and surveyors is back, with a new section on the highest fee earners. Where do you come?
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Top 75 Quantity Surveyors
The top 10 quantity surveyors have increased their staff by 7% in the past year, with Davis Langdon & Everest slugging it out with Currie & Brown for the title of biggest recruiter: both have increased their numbers by almost 100. Across the rest of the chart, staff increases are ...
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Top 75 building surveyors
This year's building surveyors league table is augmented by 37 new entries, most of them small practices with fewer than 15 staff. The firms at the top of the table are familiar names, however, with Chesterton overtaking WS Atkins to reach number one. On paper, WS Atkins appears to have ...
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Top 100 fee earners
This year's questionnaire for the 1999 consultants survey included a new section: performance ratios. Practices were asked to calculate their fee-earning capacity by dividing their annual fee income by the number of chartered staff.Taking the top 250 consultants across all disciplines, 100 firms have been ranked in order of the ...
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Tender price forecast
A modest growth in workload meant tender prices remained stable in the third quarter of 1999, but output is expected to grow by as much as 8% over the next two years.
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Low cunning
The team building a Foster-designed HQ in central London had the chance to cut cost and disruption by reusing the foundations in the original basement. But as it was 30 years old, engineer Yolles had some clever rejigging to do to make the plan work.
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The root pile man
Technical innovations have given ground engineering specialist Fondedile an enviable reputation, but, as managing director Ian McKenzie says, that doesn’t protect it from the abuses of an industry that still finds it difficult to work with itself.