All Comment articles – Page 165
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CommentI must be dreaming …
Great is the joy over the government’s announcement of a National Infrastructure Commission. But the task it now faces is equally large
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CommentA new test for penalties
The Supreme Court has made a decision on how to better codify when a contractual provision is a penalty. What effect will the new classification have on construction contracts?
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CommentHousing association reclassification - what it means
The ONS’s decision to put £60bn of housing association debt on the public sector books is no cause for panic
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CommentLimitation period: Aspect Contracts (Asbestos) Limited vs Higgins Construction plc
Before Lord Mance, Lord Wilson, Lord Sumption, Lord Reed and Lord Toulson. Judgment delivered 17 June 2015
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CommentThe tipping point
With the release of a bullish set of forecasts predicting the industry’s global market will double over the next 15 years, Christmas could come early for construction
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CommentHansom: Shape up
Time to get health conscious as Arcadis enrols on the Bear Grylls Survival Academy, and construction workers’ daily diet is examined. Elsewhere, the Daily Mail runs a mile as Jeremy Corbyn moves in down the road
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CommentOnline poll: UK construction economy
Do you think the UK will have Europe’s biggest construction economy by 2025? Vote below
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CommentWho’s counting?
Despite decades of changes to planning law, the number of homes we’re building has barely increased. Does the Housing and Planning Bill hold out the hope that this time things will be different?
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CommentStanding room only
Agile working isn’t a phase; it’s here to stay. As desk-to-worker ratios become tighter, it’s essential that building designers respond to the shift in office requirements
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CommentAbsent friends
When a contractor goes into liquidation, can an employer avoid paying them a previously certified sum? A recent case provides guidance
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CommentFooting the bill
The new housing bill would cut permanently the regulation on converting office or light-industrial sites into housing, circumnavigating both local authorities and affordable housing obligations. So who would be the winners and losers?
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CommentHansom: Going viral
Ah, the internet. Where else would we find an Essex bricklayer capable of laying 90 bricks in a minute, the Institute of Civil Engineering’s self-penned song, or China’s psychedelic promotion of its five-year plan?
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CommentInterim payment applications: Leeds City Council vs Waco UK Ltd
Before Mr Justice Edwards-Stuart. Judgment dated 22 May 2015
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CommentNot guilty!
Recent columns have been on how legal wrangling can mangle the procurement process. But is it really the lawyers at fault?
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CommentThe new frontier
The majority of construction firms caught up in a cross-border dispute will plump for international arbitration. Why is this?
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CommentCouncils can find a way to make Right to Buy work for them
Housing associations can help councils ease the pain of ‘forced’ housing sales
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CommentOsborne and Crossrail: The end of the affair?
Whatever went wrong? I suspect political ambition and calculation have intervened
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CommentBIM for QSs: Adapt or die
BIM won’t kill the QS profession but firms that don’t embrace the changes will lose relevance
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CommentOnline poll: Steel
Will government measures on buying and sourcing steel succeed in levelling the playing field for UK firms competing against overseas suppliers? Vote below