All Features articles – Page 607
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Solar power: just a bright idea
With the ice caps melting and oil prices soaring, solar has never looked a better bet. But in Britain it remains the concern of cranks and visionaries. Will this ever change?
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Cost study: Birmingham Repertory Theatre
The diversity of performing arts buildings makes it hard to talk about a typical case, but the £7m refurbishment of Birmingham Repertory Theatre reveals some common issues
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The stuff of beams
FBEAM is a new software tool for designing long-span fabricated beams in commercial buildings. Is this the program structural engineers have been waiting for?
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Appointments
ContractorBalfour Beatty Construction has appointed Colin Smith safety, quality and environmental director.HousebuildersEdward Milner has joined Gleeson Homes (North-west) as commercial manager, based in the Blackburn office. Pegasus Retirement Homes has appointed Adrian Stokes, formerly with Virgin Western, commercial manager.Retirement homes specialist McCarthy & Stone has appointed Howard Phillips operations director ...
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Don’t listen to chickens
So, the Discain case has knocked the wheels off the entire adjudicatory system, has it? Don’t you believe it – the judge was just making a perfectly fair point about being perfectly fair.
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Top 250 consultants
Welcome to this year's consultants survey, which finds the top 250 firms in the best of health. Expanding workloads are reflected in swelling staff numbers, with most firms employing more UK chartered staff this year than last. More than 90% say they expect to take on staff in the next ...
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Under siege
Concern is mounting across the industry over the Defence Estates prime contract. Accusations are flying that it is simply a way of offloading risk. Construction is gearing up to go to war.
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Ocean Wharf
The elliptical 12-storey shaft of Ocean Wharf stands as a stylish modern bookend at the end of a row of new housing developments on the riverfront in London Docklands. Like Limehouse Basin, Ocean Wharf is developed by a suburban housebuilder new to high density inner-city schemes. In this case the ...
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Testing the limits
The fifth in this series of articles on collateral warranties looks at limitation provisions and limits on liability.
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Jump or push?
An employee who resigns because the boss has acted unreasonably could have grounds for a tribunal.
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Jolly well prove it
If you’re not on the ball with proving the basis for a delay claim or don’t know how to show what really caused the delay, then Nicholas Carnell’s book is certainly for you.
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Made in Japan
Hold on to your hard hats. A Japanese contractor has developed the technology to add a storey to a building every three days. How? Using robots, of course.
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High society
Two innovatively designed, high-density housing schemes in London Docklands fit nicely with Lord Rogers' urban vision – except for their quarter-of-a-million-pound price tag.
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Top of the form
A new standard form of subcontract for use on government work has been condemned by the Constructors Liaison Group as “utterly flawed” and “dreadful”. Do any of its attacks stand up to examination?
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Clash points
The fuel crisis hit construction hard. Now, contractors must convince their clients that they need extensions of time to cope with the delays it caused. Luckily, the force majeure clause in the JCT forms can help.
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Clash points
Let’s not get carried away. Force majeure is not defined that clearly in English law – or in JCT98. And can the fuel crisis really be said to have prevented work, or did it just make it more difficult?
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Cheque mate
The grand master behind the Morrison-Anglian tie-up was not Sir Fraser Morrison. Here’s how younger brother Gordon brokered the lucrative deal and stepped into the limelight.
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Fantasy architecture
The might-have-beens of history include architectural masterpieces that never got off the ground. Now, thanks to computer graphics, we can get a glimpse what we’ve been missing.
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Appointments
Contractors Tewkesbury-based JP Construction has promoted Malcolm Dorsett to contracts director. He will be responsible for all site operations and health and safety.Keith Lambert has been appointed managing director of refurbishment and fit-out specialist Walter Lilly, part of YJL.HousebuilderCharles Church has appointed Chris Warner sales manager of its Southern division, ...
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Radiating wisdom
Construction firms don’t have to keep their employees in the dark or bury them under paperwork. They can disseminate vast quantities of information via intranets.