More Comment – Page 568
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CommentMore DIY disasters
Show me a bespoke contract and I’ll show you a powerful client throwing its weight around. But having said that, are they better than standard fare? The short answer is ‘no’
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CommentThe simple secret of success
The expert goes to Majorca to deliver a paper about the contractual side of building – and learns a lot about how it really works from a man who doesn’t even go to his lecture …
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Are you making your staff’s life a misery?
Millions of days are lost each year because of stress, depression and anxiety. In addition, the quality of work suffers. It therefore makes sense to reduce the pressure on your workers
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Not good, but still the best
Charging fees for the use of a courtroom has got many people’s blood up. But in fact, even with the trial fee, litigation is a cheaper option than arbitration.
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CommentHansom Trick or treat
In this spookiest of weeks, skeletons are found lurking under old Epsom racecourse, a site manager shares his disturbing visions and Will Alsop is the wickedest man in Paris
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CommentLive from the BRE
If you can’t get to BRE’s Innovation Park yourself, log on to the Building website for a guided tour of the site, as well as in-depth interviews with the teams involved, says Alex Smith
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Time for a rethink
Your story announcing the second review into the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) procurement process is a welcome step as it recognises that there is scope for improvement (21 September, page 11).
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Leaks in the system
Ed Derrick’s views on what might be done with the proposed water grid (19 October, page 40) are interesting.
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Wonders & blunders
Simon McWhirter picks two lots of housing: one a happy and healthy sustainable development, the other a decrepit and depressing tower block
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John F Hunt Demolition Ltd vs ASME Engineering Ltd
This was a preliminary issues hearing relating to a main contract dated 30 June 2002, whereby Kier (Whitehall Place) Ltd (“Whitehall”) engaged Kier Build Ltd (“Build”) to design and construct commercial office premises at Whitehall Place, London. The contract incorporated the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract with Contractor’s Design ...
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CommentThe mix master
Gordon Brown has worked hard to find a delicate balance between continuity and change since becoming prime minister, and his policies on eco-towns, Crossrail and the PGS show what a shrewd operator he is
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CommentPC or not PC, that is the question
James Bessey ‘Practical completion’, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, but if you get it wrong on a PFI project then things can turn very ugly indeed…
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CommentLeave them judges alone
When a judge in a notorious Scottish murder trial dismissed the case, he was publicly criticised by the lord advocate, who was herself publicly criticised by the lord justice general. There’s a lesson for us all here …
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Making whoopie
Well, clients do want to get into partnering. Their hearts are in the right place. Trouble is, says Greg Verhoef, their hearts don’t always know what other parts of their body are up to