All Features articles – Page 622
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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?
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The outsider
High-flying executive Ken Brown has been drafted in as president of architect SOM. His mission: to transform the business of architecture.
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Clarified better
The appeal court's ruling in Henry Boot vs Alstom has clarified the way variations should be valued and now, the ICE 7th Edition is making it easier to identify valuation problems at the outset.
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Once bitten, fight shy
Once again, the adjudicator's figures on an award have proved controversial. But in this dispute even an admission of error failed to keep the case from court
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Bouygues reconsidered
You'll know about the Bouygues case, the one where the adjudicator got his sums wrong and the court enforced anyway. Well, you may be interested to know that that wasn't what happened at all …
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Change at the top
Robert Smith of Hays Montrose explains how to get a new boss settled in without hassle.