More Comment – Page 692
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In criticism of Michael
Any investor in the construction sector must have read Sir Michael Latham’s article “In defence of Peter” (17 September, page 31) with dismay bordering on disbelief, particularly his final paragraph regarding the general public’s “envious carping about salaries of industry leaders”.
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CommentDear site diary
Project manager Andrew Farrer extols the virtues of keeping a comprehensive works log – if only to provide valuable evidence in the event of a dispute
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A costly cargo
By various contracts made during the period between April 2001 and July 2001 Log-o-Mar agreed to charter five vessels (one of which was the Mega S) to Croyndon/ Craft for voyages carrying steel from Black Sea ports to Umm Qasr in southern Iraq. Disputes arose in relation to these contracts, ...
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CommentWhy Will has no Grace
If the axing of my Fourth Grace has taught me anything, it’s that politicians may demand iconic architecture but they actually want safe designs with no financial risk attached
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CommentHarsh reality
Rudi Klein goes in search of the ideal integrated supply chain – and instead stumbles upon another subcontract that perpetuates inequality, unfairness and risk-dumping
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CommentUncool customer
So MSPs are peeved they had to pay £431m for their parliament. But if the contractors delivered what the client said it wanted, why accept less than the true cost?
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Cover your back
Under the German civil code, contractors and clients can protect themselves against risk in several ways, but each one must be approached with caution
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CommentAgreement on principles
The first rule in law school is that an agreement to agree is not a contract. The second rule in law school should be that all rules have their exceptions
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CommentAn ouzo to the Olympics
Perhaps we should have consulted the Oracle at Delphi before the Athens Olympics, because the project managers turned out to be inaccurate soothsayers
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Laboured, not loved
“The British people have lost confidence in Tony Blair but still prefer him as prime minister to Michael Howard,“ a poll in The Times revealed this week.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Can London’s newest skyscraper be both a wonder and a blunder? Academic James Woudhuysen has it both ways
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CommentStand and deliver
Up until two weeks ago, we thought that 150,000 additional households were being formed every year.
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Doorstepping
We has swapped the hurly-burly of management at Berkeley Homes for the post of managing director at Silver Homes, a privately owned housebuilder developing just 20-50 upmarket homes a year in Sussex, Surrey and Kent
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CommentThe green choke-chain
Architects and other designers face environmental liabilities that will be extremely hard to comply with – but potentially ruinous if ignored, says Ian Abley
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Transatlantic drift
The neat substitution of “USA” for “UK” in a quote attributed to me (“Architect quits over troubled Nato project”, 10 September, page 10) certainly makes for more titillating and incendiary copy than the facts.
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Getting the wind-up
There are less catastrophic, but just as effective, methods of securing payment than resorting to a winding-up petition (13 August, page 34; Letters, 17 September, page 32).