All Comment articles – Page 362
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CommentMini surge over for plant hire as activity dips in April
Royal Wedding and Bank Holidays will have hit figures but the trend is still downward
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CommentElectronic trading and Morrell's plan: it's nothing new
How can the electronic exchange of trading documents, such as invoices and orders, provide a pivotal contribution to cost cutting, integrated construction and improved sustainability?
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CommentNegligence and the Limitation Act
The limitation period for a negligence claim can be extended for latent defects but this case shows why its best to issue proceedings promptly
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CommentHow to avoid PR disasters for your firm
How do you manage the reputation of your business - large or small? Here a few examples of how to to do it. And how not to…
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CommentHansom: Result!
This week effort is rewarded with slimmer waistlines, a praiseworthy ranking in the Green List, and a spotless building site – there’s even hope for those HS2 opponents now they have a new ally …
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CommentEnter the Pimby
Forced to choose between economic stagnation and new development in their backyards, communities are abandoning the nimbyism of the boom years
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Implied terms and the Privy Council
Terms and conditions are stated in a contract, right? So what about all those implied terms that don’t make it into writing? The Privy Council has a view on this …
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Inbox: Universally challenged
This week, our readers take issue with ’champagne-drinking’ architects, plans to cut the cost of skyscrapers and the industry’s approach to labour and skills
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CommentThe liquidated damages clause: Red card
A 200-year-old law says you can’t penalise builders for finishing late, but a prize-winning author says this rule has outlived its usefulness
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CommentWe’re not a bunch of incompetents
UK managers have been in the firing line of late, but the Olympics will be a great opportunity to show off our skills - and building information modelling could help us do that
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CommentWonders and Blunders with Su Butcher
Su Butcher loves everything about Ipswich’s Willis Building, even down to the swimming pool, but gets exercised about the damp squib that is the 2012 aquatics centre
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CommentArbitration: See you all in court
It’s a fact of construction that spats often occur between more than two parties on a project - and arbitration isn’t the best way of dealing with complex multi-party disputes
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CommentPresumption in favour: All those in favour?
The government’s presumption in favour of development could be a boon for developers. But which schemes could benefit?
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CommentHere we go again
PFI is back in the picture and big changes are happrning among the big consultants
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CommentEyewitness: Egyptians won their revolution, now they want more
Launching our online series of first hand accounts from trouble spots around the world, construction lawyer Kate Orviss gives her impressions of the mood after the fall of Mubarak
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CommentLow-carbon plan a reality with Prisk on board
With Mark Prisk co-chairing new Green Construction Board there are high hopes for a cross-industry low-carbon action plan
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CommentAnother step on the long march to improving construction
Construction Excellence's new report on collaboration right focuses on the building's end purpose rather than the actual building itself
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CommentA quick guide to challenging the enforcement of an adjudicator's decision
Step-by-step tips on resisting an enforcement and challenging a decision
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CommentWe’ve done it all before
Paul Morrell’s construction strategy? Looks familiar to our QS blogger