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CommentFurtive behaviour
Before you sign a home-cooked contract, ask yourself why your client-to-be felt the need to do it himself, when there are so many standard forms out there
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CommentShock and or
It happens all the time – a contractor thinks the spec means one thing, the client another. In this case it ended in a judge’s interpretation of the word ‘or’
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A victory of sorts
Insurance companies may have failed in an attempt to stop payouts to workers with a lung condition caused by asbestos, but they did manage to limit compensation
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CommentEurocontracts cometh?
The European commission has denied plans for a European civil code. But ‘improving the coherence of legal principles’ sounds rather similar
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The dangers of freedom …
In your news columns on 11 February (page 11), you reiterated Rudi Klein’s views that the Freedom of Information Act enables contractors and subcontractors who lose out on public sector projects to discover the value of rival bids and find out what criteria were used to evaluate them.
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Carry on, Colin
Colin Harding – if it is any consolation, I think your articles are excellent and well justified (Letters, 11 February, page 39).
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Time to organise?
I agree with the recent views of Colin Harding and Chris Charles (Letters, 18 February, page 34) – small firms in the construction industry do need better representation.
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Courage under fire
Tony Bingham’s expert witness–hired gun analogy (4 February, page 50) struck a chord – appearing in the witness box under the interrogation of our learned friends seems to me akin to being under fire!
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No such stipulation
I am writing in response to your article on the Bath Spa, “Money down the drain” (11 February, page 26).
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Silenced partner
I have noticed over the years that when you profile a landmark project in your publication, you rarely make mention of the specialist M&E subcontractors used by a listed main contractor and I have often wondered why.
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Judge, jury and accomplice
Although I am sure that Michael Sergeant has presented a legally correct view of impartiality and agency (21 January, page 58), I think that he has not entirely warned of the dangers facing the design team.
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An arquitecto writes
With regards to Just the job (4 February, page 110): I am a Spanish arquitecto técnico who has been working as an estimator/quantity surveyor in the UK for the past year.
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Ryding with Rab
I couldn’t agree more with Rab Bennetts’ call for an accepted, industry-wide methodology for measuring the performance of buildings (11 February, page 15).
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FeaturesLofty ideas, hushed tones
In its reinvention of the library as gateway to human knowledge, Bennetts Associates has created a graciously grand yet efficiently low-energy centrepiece to a mixed-use regeneration scheme in Brighton. We took a quiet look around
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FeaturesWhat’s their big idea now?
Next week is the fifth anniversary of the London Eye hoisting its first passengers 130 m above the capital. Its designers David Marks and Julia Barfield talk about their battle to ensure the Eye’s future, their next height-defying design and why they are not millionaires … yet.
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FeaturesWe have take-off
On a miniscule site that gives new meaning to the phrase ‘close to the flightpath’, the team building Heathrow’s new air traffic control tower found an ingenious way to hoist the control room 87 m into the air.
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NewsCity responds cautiously to Taylor Woodrow results
Housebuilder reports 30% rise in pre-tax profit but analysts note ‘disappointing’ UK performance
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United Utilities awards £900m water contract
United Utilities has selected three parties to carve up £900m of work across north-west England.
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WYG reports 44% profit rise
Support services group White Young Green this week said that last year’s takeover spree pushed half-year pre-tax profit up 44%.
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Government to impose strict rules on all public contracts
OGC prepares dramatic shake-up of regulations – and promises to pay contractors on time