All Features articles – Page 622
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Stay frosty
When an adjudicator gets personal, their decision can be clamped by the High Court. Whatever the referee thinks of the parties to the dispute, there must be no suggestion of bias.
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Golden Gordon
Gordon Brown's pre-budget report has particular tax consequences for small and medium-sized businesses. Here's a round-up of what the chancellor is about to do for your economic well-being.
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More Peter Rogers than Richard Rogers
There are few of Richard Rogers' signature flourishes on this west London business park, but then it does have the trademark Stanhope touch: sleek, cutting-edge efficiency in construction and layout.
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Be prepared
The JCT design-and-build contract says that the valuation of a job is to be done by the contractor. This can put an unwary employer in a number of difficult and costly positions.
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The American way
How does US construction law compare with the UK variety? Honours seem to be even, with better general protection for contractors over there, but no pernicious "pay when paid" over here.
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Appointments
ContractorsMJ Gleeson Group has restructured its Northern Construction Division. Keith Shivers has been appointed managing director of the division, based in Sheffield, and Steven Landes is the new commercial director. Neil Robertson has been appointed to the divisional board as regional director responsible for construction. Paul McGarry and Bill Law ...
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Last chances
Parties often have a time limit to raise objections after a certificate has been issued. But they also have the right to call for an adjudicator at any time. So, can they or can't they?
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Interest charges
With the trend towards no-win, no-fee agreements in construction claims cases, the obscure charge of champerty acts as a barrier to profiteers' ill-gotten gains.
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Famous five
Norman, Richard, Zaha, Nick and Terry are having awfully big adventures in the States, with a run of projects all the way from Seattle to Cincinnati …
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Product focus - paving fights the fumes
Marshalls are working with Mitsubishi Materials Corporation to introduce a paving to the UK that is claimed to neutralise nitrous oxide from car exhaust fumes and convert them into nitrates, which are then washed down the drain.
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Green is good
Wall Street's Gordon Gekko summed up the ethos of the 1980s as "greed is good". Now consumers are forcing developers to think green, not just greenback.
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Metal guru
Frank Gehry is showing the technophobic US construction industry how computers can transform building. But does anyone believe him?
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The land of opportunity
Despite the special relationship, a shared language and the rest, UK firms often find it harder to get work in boomtown USA than China. Here's a comprehensive guide to the problems – and how to overcome them.
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New York storeys
The most exciting city on earth has long had a reputation for low-grade high-rises and Mob rule. But now New York is getting its groove back …
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Sort it out yourself
A protocol for construction and civil engineering disputes has just been introduced, and it does everything to stop you getting into court short of hiding the judges. But will it work?