All Features articles – Page 647
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Rules For Taking Penalties
The Scottish Law Commission is proposing to move the goal posts over penalty clauses by removing the traditional link with pre-estimates of damage.
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Do the public really have a say?
Public consultation is becoming a political imperative when it comes to new building schemes. But do current methods really get the community involved or merely pay lip-service to the democratic process?
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Tracking system
Recruitment consultant Richard Milsom on the strategies his firm uses to find the leaders of tomorrow.
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Let’s get it together
Uncoordinated specifications can result in chaos and even claims. The architect (and its spec writer) could do something about it – if only they could get involved from the start.
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Appointments
ContractorsAndy Stoddart has been promoted to managing director of Morgan Sindall.David Thomas has been appointed marketing manager for Ballast Wiltshier’s South-west operation.Martin Doe has been appointed strategic sales and marketing director of Laing’s construction arm.HousebuildersBeazer Homes has appointed Bernard Evans construction director.David Bemister has been promoted to site manager at ...
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Arbitration usurped
In the first of a new series on dispute resolution methods, we look at how arbitration has failed to achieve the objectives set out for it in the Arbitration Act 1996.
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How to lose before you start
The Construction Act's payment rules have been overshadowed by adjudication. However, in tandem, they give contractors a super way to pole-axe an unwary client.
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City slackers
Nick Raynsford is about to tell City fund managers that construction is a safe, sexy investment, but with shares in free-fall and hot money piling into the Internet, will they pay any attention?
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Conspiracy theory
This is the story of how a consulting engineer and a developer misled a client over practical completion, the role a collateral warranty played and how more than £1m was spent in pursuit of less than £13 000 damages.
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For your eyes only
Lawyer Charlotte Giller on how two new acts will affect an employee's rights to privacy at work.
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Reeling them in
IT: E-commerce Causeway Technologies boss Phil Brown has spent the past year pulling together all the different services he needs to lure customers to his e-marketplace, buildingworks.com.
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Stop right there!
If someone brings an adjudication against you when they have no right, do you have to go through the motions and hope to get it overturned later, or can you get a court to halt it?
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Ross Taylor
Meet Bovis Lend Lease's new group president. The 38-year-old Australian who brokered the deal between the companies has moved to London, with a brief to integrate the two and work out where the new business is going.
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Uphill struggle
The centrepiece of a £57m sports centre in Milton Keynes is a 170 m long indoor ski slope with real snow. Concreting the 15° slope was just one problem this multipurpose building presented.
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Where are tomorrow’s leaders?
The City is beginning to worry that, as contracting’s top bosses edge closer to retirement, the industry is not doing enough to find and groom their successors.
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Sunny intervals in South Wales …
The Welsh market is split between the potential boom of the South and the continued stultifying of mid-Wales. In the Welsh capital, a combination of the Cardiff Bay makeover, including the Wales Millennium Centre, the National Assembly and the Millennium Stadium has fuelled an explosion of hotels, bars and restaurants. ...
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… and in the South-west
Bristol continues to attract the majority of developments in the South-west. The hiccup for Crest Nicholson’s £200m mixed-use Harbourside development, refused planning permission and being appealed, is counteracted by the success of the £300m Temple Quay regeneration scheme in the city, which is well under way. Fitzroy Robinson has designed ...
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All change
As chair of the RICS' Junior Organisation, Jacqueline Fearon personifies the young, dynamic image that the body is trying to promote in its Agenda for Change.
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East Anglia: Good, but not great
Workloads in Cambridge and Norwich are good, but not spectacular. The market is healthy enough for contractor Fitzpatrick to set up an office to service Cambridge and Peterborough, and consultants in Cambridge reckon that workload is about 5% higher than last year. Stephen Bugg, a partner in Davis Langdon & ...