All Features articles – Page 656
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It’s all in the planning
The CDM Regulations impose stringent health and safety obligations on planning supervisors, so construction contracts must include clauses that help them do their jobs.
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About time, too
In his third and final article on how an architect is supposed to decide extensions of time, Dominic Helps reveals the identities of the parties, the facts of the case, and the decision of the court.
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Bring on the accolades
There are prizes for everything these days, so why not for law publications that help us understand all the rules and regulations bearing down on us?
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Action man
Electrician Pete Dyer left Croydon to join a group expedition to Mongolia – which is a long way to go to organise the construction of a clinic out of straw.
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Appointments
ContractorsTim Philpott has been appointed health and safety manager at Surrey-based Bancourt Construction.Martin Lunn has been promoted to manager of the design and build team at Higgins.EBC Construction has promoted John Crowhurst to site foreman. Paul Lakin has joined the firm as site manager. David Chudley and Martin Knott have ...
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Could do better
The UK’s first PFI school, the Sir John Colfox in Dorset, is a big hit with staff and pupils. It’s just a shame that the architecture is so uninspiring.
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Summertime blue
The problem of how to prevent glare and heat gain while letting sunlight flood into a building found a new solution in a German bank: electrochromic glass.
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Building for fun
Leisure firms will spend more than £2.5bn on construction this year, and 10 top clients at Building’s IBM-sponsored procurement conference spelled out what firms have to do to get it.
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Clients switch on
Once upon a time, clients paid only lip service to IT. Not any more. They have identified state-of-the-art virtual design as a key competitive weapon – so contractors had better do the same.
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Cost study: Incineration plant
Sewage waste must now be incinerated rather than dumped at sea. In the Mersey valley, an award-winning, state-of-the-art incineration plant sets a model for fitting this bulky new building type into its surroundings and building to a budge
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Do your homework
The schools market is not, so far, one of the PFI’s success stories, but a £1.6bn build programme is about to change all that for the firms prepared to put in the effort.
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The knowledge
The Institute of Management's Karen Dale on getting the data you need without suffering information overload.
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Possession and loss
There’s an implied term in all contracts that the employer gives the contractor possession of the site. So, who bears the extra costs when Basque activists arrive?
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Recycled yoghurt cartons, wind-powered lights, and a sea of tarmac …
Sainsbury's eco-friendly flagship store on the Greenwich Peninsula pioneers green features and a low-energy heating system. Shame about the car park.
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Should all compliance be forgot …
New year 2000 promises to be the biggest celebration for, well, 2000 years, but spare a thought (and a lump of coal) for the industry's IT managers. Will they spend the night soberly watching over their networks, or are they confident enough to party with the rest of us?
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Appointments
Contractor Davendra Patel has joined interior fit-out specialist Neslo as operational director. Housebuilders Wilcon Homes has appointed Deborah Benson regional managing director for east Scotland. Housebuilder Charles Church has appointed Debbie Willis land manager for the south Midlands. Consultants Brian Witten has been appointed head of ...
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The case for the plaintiff
Harmon knew something was fishy about the job, but it needed a lot of courage and money to take on the House of Commons. Here, Harmon's solicitor explains what happened.
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Service charge
New rules coming into force next April may mean hefty tax bills for personal services companies. How can industry professionals avoid getting stung by the Inland Revenue?
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Drama queen
This is the story of how solicitor Yang-May Ooi suddenly saw that the workaday world of construction power, conflict, corruption could be transformed into the plot of a hit novel