All Features articles – Page 625
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Variations on a theme
The dispute over how to value variations under the ICE form, recently considered by the Court of Appeal, has just been given another twist by the Technology and Construction Court.
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Rough and tumble
Undoing deals on the grounds of economic duress is difficult, as shown by a recent decision of Mr Justice Dyson in the Technology and Construction Court.
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A natural reaction
The Discain case has fuelled the debate over the conduct of adjudications where one party feels there has been a breach of natural justice that affected the outcome.
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Robert Jones
The former Conservative construction minister is now chairman of housebuilder Redrow. Which means he’s back with his first love: planning.
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Just the job
What makes a gym manager want to become a surveyor? Berit Eis asks a Willmott Dixon trainee who did.
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Going with the grain
Something is afoot in the land of the log cabin. To help boost its timber exports, Finland has developed a range of high-tech wooden products and built striking structures to showcase them.
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Falkirk's millennium wheel starts to roll
Site work begins on £78m, 17 000 tonne rotating boat lift that will link two Scottish canals.
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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.