More Comment – Page 647
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CommentThe troubles we’ve seen
If there’s one thing you can confidently predict about 2006 it’s that the rows that raged in 2005 will rage on. In case you needed reminding, here they are …
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Not bad, not biased and not barking
Depending on who you ask, the new NEC contract displays favouritism to contractors or employers. In fact, it is the lawyers who amend it who are causing the problems
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CommentBosses beware
his year is going to be packed with changes to employment law. This is what you need to know on age discrimination, illegal workers, TUPE and more …
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CommentThe Shanghai express
Sir Terry Farrell’s vision for the Thames Gateway, which is largely accepted by David Miliband, is exactly what we should avoid. Instead, we should look to the East
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CommentConsider Macau
When it comes to high-rise living, the Far East has got it down to a fine art. So why can’t our own crowded little island do something similar?
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Southwark’s big plans
I am writing to correct an impression that may have been made by your article on the Beetham Tower proposal (9 December).
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A simple solution
In his article “A fat lot of good” (2 Decembe), Rudi Klein rightfully complains that adjudication has become too expensive to be appropriate for the small value disputes that it was intended to resolve.
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Yule’s tidings
Perhaps only a legal man could be so outrageous in his opinion but at the same time completely miss the essence of the NEC (Ian Yule, 18 November). The whole ethos of the contract is based upon communication, collaboration and co-operation centred on timely and effective good management from all ...
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Cannes the hard way
If any of your readers are keen cyclists and are planning to go to MIPIM, they might like to know I am organising a charity ride that will do the 920 miles in three days riding in relays.
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Victorian fiction
Tony Bingham (18 November) once more goes to the heart of a big problem for the building industry: that it is still incapable of delivering a building in which design and integration of services are fully co-ordinated.
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Wonder or …?
I would nominate Zaha Hadid’s Wolfsburg Science Centre, featured in your “In pictures” article on 2 December, page 24, as a strong candidate for a future “blunder”.
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Rab lets rip
I should know by now not to read Colin Harding’s regular attacks on architects as they just wind me up, but he cannot go unchallenged.
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CommentState-of-the-art stupidity
Thanks to our readers for contributing this gallery of health and safety blunders from around the world...
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Unphased
In 2002 a plan to regenerate Hastings and Bexhill was approved. The proposals were for a mixed development that would proceed in two phases. Phase 1 included the submission of a detailed planning application for infrastructure proposals, and associated surface water attenuation measures, for part of the site. Phase 2 ...
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CommentA night to regret
What happened to my mate Trevor after the Christmas party? He seemed so chatty, so relaxed. And a few hours later he was banged up in a police cell …
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Studying the form
This year the JCT caused quite a stir when it decided to revamp its entire suite of contracts (see Building, 24 June), but it’s the changes to the design contracts – Design and Build Contract and the Intermediate Contract with Design – that have created most interest.
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CommentA Christmas dinner
When it comes to the economics of happiness, a guaranteed maximum price can entail unacceptable costs – as this festive tale demonstrates
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Comment2005: A landmark year
Twelve months suddenly seems like a long time in contracting. There’s long been a theoretical debate within construction groups about what a contractor is, what it does – and whether that’s worth doing.
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Sorry, that’s discontinued …
A notice of adjudication was issued on 10 June 2004. On 6 July, the claimants served its response. On 7 July the defendant accepted that the adjudicator did not have jurisdiction. The adjudication was discontinued and the defendant paid the adjudicator’s account.The claimant then asked the adjudicator for a decision ...