All Features articles – Page 634
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Reinventing the wheel
At first glance, the capsules for the Millennium Wheel look fairly conventional. In fact, nobody has ever built anything like them before – and the problems were unprecedented, too.
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Flexible friends
The Institute of Management’s Karen Charlesworth on how flexible working can help your career and your firm.
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Smart design
We keep hearing that 3D modelling and intelligent objects are the future of building design. Can AutoCAD Architectural Desktop Release 2 smooth the transition to the new era?
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Materials life costs
The Building Performance Group guide to how long building components last and their whole-life costs. This week: asphalt, single-ply polymer and bituminous membrane flat roofs.
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Inflated claims?
An adjudicator decided he had the authority to referee a compromise agreement. One of the parties disagreed and refused to abide by the adjudicator’s decision. So what next?
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A certifiable nuisance
The DETR’s latest consultation paper on self-certification under the Building Regulations makes businesses vulnerable to court action, and introduces yet another time-consuming approval mechanism.
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Appointments
ContractorsDoug Elliott has been made managing director of design-and-build firm TNG, part of Unite Group.Birse Construction has promoted Steve Barker to marketing director of its civil engineering division. John Branton replaces Barker as marketing manager of the North-east civils business.Mark Kirwan has been appointed general manager at fit-out specialist Crispinteriors, ...
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I don’t speak legalese
Lawyers used to help their clients write statements and affidavits. But, under the Civil Procedure Rules, witnesses must junk the jargon and write in their own words.
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Be reasonable – or else
Following the Woolf report, courts are trying to shovel as much of their caseload as they can onto the books of ADR providers. But can you force people to be reasonable?
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You cannot be serious, ref!
So, the case is closed, the verdict is in writing – only the referee has slipped up and written the result down wrong. It’s a simple case of correcting the mistake, right? Ah – not so fast.
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Playing safe
On new year’s eve, Richard Limb will be looking after 4 million people – it’s his job to ensure the capital’s millennium event goes off uneventfully.
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Rough justice is still justice
Justice? You get that in heaven. Down here you’ve got the law. And adjudicators aren’t even as consistent as the courts – they’re more like a referee at a football game. But, then again, you try playing without one …
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Just the job
You think the people building the dome have it tough? At least they don’t have to wear a silly costume to work.
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Clash points
The dome client came unstuck when it tried to enforce a contract clause that required a bond and guarantee from a supplier. But clients only use such clauses because firms are so bad at producing documents on time.
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Clash points
Subcontractors are not the only culprits when it comes to forgetting about the paperwork. And why should the supplier alone provide these bonds? The clause is hardly in keeping with the partnering ethos.
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Appointments
Contractors Specialist contractor Concrete Repairs, part of Gleeson Group, has promoted Steve Jones to head of its new Bristol office. Lord John Patten has been appointed a non-executive director of Amey.Michael Rogers, previously with Birse Construction, has been appointed business development manager at McNicholas.Dean & Dyball Construction has appointed Tim ...
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When all's said and done
The fact that you have a contract that is only evidenced by an oral agreement does not stop you suing under the Construction Act – but be careful of potential pitfalls.
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Party pieces
London is not the only city celebrating the dawn of the new millennium with a special building. Here we present a few landmark millennium projects from cities around the world, and from a small town near Jerusalem, where a certain child was born 2000 years ago.
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An offer you can refuse?
When does an offer constitute a contract and when is it merely an invitation to treat? With e-commerce pricing errors increasing, it is as well to prepare to withdraw or amend.
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Through the labyrinth
It is a common law rule that an arbitration clause in a contract is to be regarded as a contract within a contract – which may survive if the contract itself is terminated. Herein lies a mire into which many fall.