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CommentProud to be green
We helped deliver the BREEAM Outstanding rating on the King’s Cross Central development project
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CommentPC Harrington vs Systech: Fair game
Disputants and learned judges please note: adjudication is a rough and ready process that isn’t always fair. That might seem tough but it’s just what parliament intended
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CommentPC Harrington vs Systech: Something for nothing?
The potential consequences of the PC Harrington vs Systech International judgment
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CommentThe last word in adjudication
How many submissions should each party be allowed in an adjudication - and which side should be given the final say? It depends which rules of natural justice you follow
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CommentHow UK construction consultants are selling themselves abroad
UK firms are picking up increasing amounts of work abroad
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CommentWonders & blunders with Lindy Patterson
Scotland’s Forth Bridge takes Lindy Patterson’s breath away but Glasgow’s principal civic square, the scene of so many protests, is itself the subject of her protestations
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CommentTanzania – Birth of a gas giant?
Opportunities fired by natural gas could make Tanzania an attractive prospect for business – but what are the key considerations for working there?
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CommentSolid foundations
Officials could do far worse than to look at Whitehall’s approach to housebuilding and seek to replicate it on a bigger scale
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CommentConstruction is all at sea
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. Construction has a lot to learn from yacht racing
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CommentBuilding on Flickr: La Defense offices in Almere
La Defense offices in Almere, Netherlands, designed by UNStudio. Photograph by Wojtek Gurak
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CommentDispute resolution: Ask an expert
Involving an expert in dispute resolution can help your case - but make sure that they are experienced, a good communicator and can offer independent advice in the eyes of the court
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CommentB: Bouygues vs Dahl-Jenson
A-Z of key construction law cases: An early adjudication case that shows that even when an adjudicator gets things wrong, their decision can still be upheld by the courts
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CommentIs a lack of new housing resulting in more multi-family homes?
Multi-family households are on the rise, especially in London, which is just one symptom of our chronic failure to build enough new homes, says Brian Green
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CommentLimited liability: Even limits have their limits
Contract terms that seek to limit liability have to be able to pass a test of reasonableness – and not only where they are part of standard terms
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CommentBig business needs diversity
I was dismayed to read that, of the 71 director positions available in Balfour Beatty’s restructure, not one is held by a woman
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CommentStandard form contracts: Cheer up, Tony
Life has changed in the 50 years since the 1964 Banwell Report recommended the use of only one form of contract
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CommentBlackfriars station: A bridge too far
Jacobs are credited with designing the station – but the idea was actually originally conceived by Will Alsop
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CommentNorthern Ireland: The bigger picture
Most people in the UK will never understand how incompetent the Northern Ireland Assembly is. What has happened to Patton is sad and disturbing. It is difficult to keep a large construction company trading when all key local markets have been decimated and below cost tendering is seen as ...