More Comment – Page 406
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CommentProving economic duress
Some construction clients are trying to force their suppliers to drop prices. But the courts will come down hard on those who rely on illegitimate threats and financial leverage
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CommentNo complaints: Holystone vs Volker Stevin
Here’s a court case of an adjudication that went to enforcement, in which all four arguments a party used in its defence were defeated …
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CommentWonders & blunders with Bruce Kennedy
BDP’s director is inspired by New York’s forward-looking Rockefeller Centre, built in dark economic times, but regrets the retrogressive timidity of SOM’s One World Trade Centre
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CommentForecasters at Leading Edge see growth after a shallow drop next year
Forecasters optimistic that growth in private sector will compensate for loss in public work
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CommentPassivhaus refurb diaries, part 7: Rendered insulation
Rendered insulation was used at the back of this Victorian house but there were problems to overcome …
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CommentConstruction’s downward revision yet to show in GDP figures
The latest construction figures will be factored into GDP figures next month
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CommentRICS survey points heavily to a return to recession
Survey indicates surveyors’ workloads are now falling
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CommentWhy we should train architects on the job
Higher education is going to become increasingly inaccessible, so why don’t we create ways of training while working
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Cluttons
Surveyors seem to have a predilection for rather shiny watering holes in west(ish) London when Building Buys a Pint. The Portman, which has removed most of its old wooden interior in favour of cream walls and rack upon rack of immaculate glassware, is no exception
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CommentLet’s rebuild our legal system
The fundamental truth about contract law is that those who use it don’t understand it, and so it endangers their survival. Shouldn’t the government rethink the whole thing?
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CommentHansom: Hue and cry
Modern classicism shows its colours (anything you like as long as it’s white), while those who should be blushing a beautiful shade of pink include Cabe, Jarvis, and, ahem, a few of our colleagues
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CommentDifficult jurisdictions: Libya
In the first of a series on difficult jurisdictions, Chris Hill turns the focus on Libya where the opportunities are on a par with its challenges
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CommentQuality control
Bingham and Walker pirouette around the truth (29 October, page 52), without coming to the point, in arguing the duty a QS owes to the client in valuing work in progress under a JCT contract. JCT makes it clear that only the architect is to judge if what is being ...
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Not over yet
I enjoyed the broad-ranging discussion as a panel member of the round table on cavity walls on 7 September
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Domino effect
Regarding your article “Bovis asks suppliers about Rok exposure” (12 November, page 11), I for one can see nothing untoward in this move
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Future burdens ...
Regarding the loophole in the new Part L rules, this is a missed opportunity by the communities department to drive down the emissions of new-build homes