More Focus – Page 571
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Taylor Woodrow, construction manager at Gatwick Airport, has created an intranet that lays open every facet of the job for every subcontractor and consultant to see.
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Charters and partners
A charter can go a long way to clarify the intent behind the creation of a contract when the parties start falling fall out and have to go to court or arbitration.
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Plane tale of third parties
Much of the debate on the proposed Contracts Bill centres on the implications of a clause that confers potentially troublesome benefits on third parties not privy to a contract. A flight of fancy or a real worry?
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Fee enterprise
The JCT s draft consultants agreement is intended to reduce conflict in the industry. In fact, it may do the opposite.
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Clash points
A recent report shows that clients are happier with the industry than they were in the mid-1990s. But this may merely reflects easier times, rather than better working practices.
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Clash points
The results of the report were striking, and we know from all the demonstration projects that Egan is being taken seriously by the industry and by many of its most important clients.
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Trust funds
London housing association the Peabody Trust spends £50m on construction every year. And if you are an innovative architect or a time-saving sustainable contractor, it wants to hear from you.
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Materials life costs
Timber windows are the focus of the first in a new series on the whole-life costs of materials, compiled by Building Performance Group to help specifiers and clients.
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Contractors break up their
Conglomerates are out; core businesses are in. Over the next eight pages, Building talks to the bosses of four of the UK s biggest contractors and finds out how they re getting back to what they do best.
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Sir Neville Simms: Why I’m giving in to City demands strip
Tarmac chief executive Sir Neville Simms believed he had pared back his business enough when he swapped his housing arm for Wimpey s minerals business in 1996. But with Tarmac s share price remaining well below what Sir Neville believes is its true value, he is now preparing a further ...
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Sir Frank Lampl: Jumping the P&O ship will allow Bovis to chart its own destiny
For Bovis chairman Sir Frank Lampl, winning the contract to build Eurodisney in spring 1987 was a highlight of his career one of the first forays out of the UK that transformed the contractor. Unfortunately, the stock market was not similarly overjoyed the share price of ...
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Keith Clarke: We’d rather be dull and profitable than all boats and flags
Trafalgar House was a symbol of the buccaneering 1980s, as the £3.2bn-a-year Ritz Hotels-to-contracting group seemed to grow and grow. Returns for investors shot up, too, until inflation slowed and Trafalgar House hit trouble. The party was over long before Norwegian giant Kvaerner bought the firm in 1996, but for ...
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Mike Welton: Unravelling from cables will allow Balfour Beatty to be a pure contractor
British Insulated Calendar Cables has been one of the great names of UK industry for 30 years, spending much of that time as one of the country s top 100 companies. When contracting faltered, the cables business rescued it, and vice versa. At least that was the idea, but cables ...
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Primary colours
A new prefab school extension could help the government hit its target for 2500 extra classrooms. And the first one now is in place, providing a bright and stimulating environment for 5- to 11-year-olds in Colchester.
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From factory to Hackney
Fully fitted-out modules, prefabricated in York and craned into place, have made their first appearance in a multistorey housing scheme.
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Motor homes
Ove Arup's ex-Jaguar man wants to use automated car production techniques to take factory built housing a step beyond current models.
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Added value
When one of the UK s fastest growing construction companies decided to overhaul its accounts system, it opted for a Window-based solution, that gave employees the independence to access the network.
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Keeping up standards
The Joint Contracts Tribunal has published JCT98, the successor to JCT80 and all its amendments and supplements. So, what difference will it make?
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Just the limit
How effective are clauses that limit a consultant s liability to less than his or her total insurance cover? Until now this has been a grey area, but a recent decision has cast some light on how the courts will assess them.
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Our friends in the North
The Pathfinder Group report on the Scottish construction sector sees the new parliament as a potential champion for the industry.