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CommentMy digital life … Guy Scilly
The Multitech Site Services managing director on keeping up to date with boxing news, listening to The Jam, and learning to love his Kindle
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CommentHansom: Dining out
On this week’s menu, an architect’s in the back of Burger King, Next is on the warpath, a Hansom hack is all at sea, and Boris smells something fishy. Plus, rappers and runners are here to inspire us
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CommentAn exemplary office building
British Land’s Ropemaker Place is a green scheme to be proud of
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CommentMy beef with the Budget
Richard Steer laments a speech that offers no real nourishment to the industry and, what is worse, shows the chancellor to be deaf to the demands of construction
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CommentWonders & blunders with ... Angus Morrogh-Ryan
Angus Morrogh-Ryan is stunned by Oscar Niemeyer’s Niterói Contemporary Art Museum but the same architect’s Museum of Cinema is just a sad, unused shell
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CommentUncharted territory: The Jackson reforms
Lord Justice Jackson’s cost reforms, which come into force on 1 April, will create a new landscape for litigation. How will this affect construction and engineering cases?
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CommentWhat implied terms imply
The question of what terms should be implied - and what they mean when they are implied - is often at the centre of disputes, as recent cases show …
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CommentAdjudication: A 63 lever arch file problem
Doubtless you’d feel miffed to have to wade through huge files of material in just seven days so you can serve your response. But don’t expect a court judge to take pity on you
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CommentAudio clip: Building's editor on Help to Buy
Building’s editor Sarah Richardson speaking on the BBC’s Today programme about the effect of the housing measures announced this week
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CommentContempt of court: Jailhouse rock
Here’s a case that started out as a workaday adjudication case and ended up with one party trying to get the other banged up in prison for contempt of court
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CommentTax compliance: Anything to declare?
New government rules mean that any contractors bidding for public projects will have to disclose a 10-year tax history - and any non-compliance will need a good explanation
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CommentMy digital life … Tim Garratt
The Innes England director on blogging at all hours, communicating with his squash team via Facebook, and late Xmas presents
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CommentDodgy suspension
An ingenious solution to finding a parking space in an inner city shopping precinct
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CommentMiddle-aged folks homes
Finding a model of retirement living that appeals to 60-something baby boomers is the key to solving the housing shortage, argues Richard Morton
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CommentHansom: ‘Cannes do’ attitude
We reflect on last week’s Mipim where BoJo bashed the French, the weather threatened to flood the place, a Turner Townsend employee reminisced about bath time, and we got our hands on some boules
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CommentBIM: Method in modelling
The new BIM protocol and standard should finally put an end to the industry’s ad-hoc approach to managing information, says Simon Rawlinson
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CommentWould retention trust funds work?
Should trust funds be set up to ensure subcontractors get retentions?
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CommentOnly big firms can lead on direct payment
A reader’s view on John Lewis’ idea to pay subcontractors directly