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China and its supporters
China is the world s biggest building site and its greater openness to outside influence offers opportunities aplenty for UK construction firms enough to make one feel quite giddy.
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A question of human rights
Does the right to adjudication created by the 1996 Construction Act infringe the right to a fair trial enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights? In short, the answer is no.
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A handy little friend to know
Creditors often have to fight it out when a firm becomes insolvent. That is when those who know about Romalpa come into their own.
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Clash points
The insolvency exemption is the most controversial element in the Construction Act. It is unjustifiable, unfair and too wide-ranging in its definition of insolvency. It must go.
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Clash points
No, it must stay why should major contractors bear all the risk? Also, Rudi exaggerates the helplessness of subcontractors to pay-when-paid, as well as the amount of money they may lose.
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Winning ways
The second in a series on marketing looks at how you can optimise your chances of being awarded work by improving your bidding strategy.
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Whole-life
The second in 精东影视's series on occupancy costs compiled by Citex Professional Services looks at learning resource centres today's high-tech equivalent of the traditional library and now an essential part of the service offered by further education establishments.
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Targeting abuse
Institute of Personnel and Development policy adviser Angela Baron on how to spot substance abuse in the workplace and what to do next.
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Appointments
Contractors John Napier has been appointed non-executive deputy chairman of Amey. Henry Boot Developments has appointed Stephen Summerfield development surveyor in its Midlands office. Andrew Gay has joined the main board of Jarvis following the retirement of Terry Simpson. He remains managing director of the Streamline Holdings ...
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It's a weird and wonderful world
Yorkshire's Earth Centre, the first of 14 landmark millennium projects to open, pushes the green message with a mix of bizarre, fantastic and startling sights.
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The outsider
Stepping down as a regional director of Bovis to take the helm of a family-run firm is a brave move. But it is one that has left Cliff Bryant feeling supercharged .
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Sun, sea and service stations
British consultants are moving in on the Spanish leisure facilities construction market, currently as hot as the Mediterranean sun.
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High-wire act
A new footbridge over London s Royal Victoria Dock is a stunning addition to the landscape, but why was it built asymmetrically 15 m above the water?
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Pros and coms
Faced with a large and complex project for BAA, QS Currie & Brown developed its own software package ProCom to keep track of cost changes. How does it work?
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A little lesson in liability
Once the defects liability period of a JCT Minor Works Contract has expired, a client can no longer file a defects claim. That s what one builder thought but the Court of Appeal disagreed.
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Breaking the speed limits
Adjudication offers rapid, cheap claims resolution, but has been hamstrung by doubts about how the courts would deal with it. After the latest pronouncement, however, everything is becoming clear.
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Construction management
The second of our occasional series explaining procurement methods takes a look at what is involved in construction management.
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Less than zero
Looking behind the headlines of the chancellor s recent budget, there is little to encourage the building industry and some changes, such as those to VAT, may lead to significant extra costs.
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Contract lure
Robert Smith of recruitment consultant Hays Montrose explains why more and more construction workers are turning to fixed-term contracts.