More Comment – Page 337
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CommentThe NEC and 'good faith' clauses
The New Engineering Contract’s requirement to act in a spirit of mutual trust could penalise over-zealous suppliers just as easily as slack clients
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CommentHansom: Doubling up
This week, the long-awaited Kanye West/OMA collaboration, the white heat of technology at the BCO conference and a Godzilla-sized image of the House of Windsor looms over London
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CommentQSs and performance bonds
A QS can go to great lengths to get a contractor to put a performance bond in place. But if the contractor won’t pay for the bond, why blame the QS when the proverbial hits the fan?
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CommentWonders & blunders with Martin Winch
The Albert Memorial is a fitting tribute to a former Royal consort, while Tolworth Tower remains an uninspiring piece of suburban architecture
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CommentMonarchs and architecture: King George IV
How much influence have the Royals had on British architecture? Building investigates
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CommentMaking Priority Schools add up
Gove’s announcement secures precious funding for some schools, but there are still questions about how the procurement will work
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CommentPart 8 declaration declined: R&C Electrical Ltd vs Shaylor Construction Ltd
This case reaffirms the principle that in limited circumstances a party may set off against an adjudicator’s decision
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CommentPart 36 offers: Phi Group Ltd v Robert West Consulting
In this case the Court of Appeal considered the requirements of Part 36 offers and overturned a costs decision in the Technology & Construction Court
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CommentMonarchs and architecture
This week Building is examining the influence the Royals have had on our architecture – today we look at the impact of King James I
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CommentRoyals and architecture
Ahead of the Jubilee Building takes a look at the influence monarchs have had on our architecture – starting today with King William I
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CommentUnlocking the commercial market
The commercial office industry meets in gloomy mood this week, but if occupiers, developers and financiers work in partnership, they could open up the sector
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CommentArchitects, engineers and consultants are boosting turnover as they focus on overseas markets
Good news for UK firms - but it does not mean UK construction is doing well
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CommentMy digital life … Blane Judd
The chief executive of the Building & Engineering Services Association likes to hoard data and confesses to being an app junkie
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CommentProfit and loss
We are currently building half the homes we need in the UK. But if the housebuilder won’t jump in to fill the hole, who will?
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CommentAmateur builders kid themselves
How will the general public have self-build loans approved with no experience of construction projects?
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CommentMasonry as good as wood
The advantage of timber frame housing in respect of embodied carbon is marginal
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CommentSinks stink but timber triumphs
Support the safe use of timber in construction, not underground carbon sinks
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CommentHansom: Break out the canapes
This week, Make’s Ken Shuttleworth puts on a good spread, RIBA throws a party at the V&A, energy minister Greg Barker gets told off, and a terrible odour reaches Building Towers