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Be logical
Surely it's unfair for an adjudicator to refuse to decide which of two contracts governs a project but then to go on and value the claim without reference to either
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CommentNot in our name
A reader writes … Jeremy Hackett explains why the RICS needs to forget its grandiose plans for world domination and concentrate on responding to the wishes of its members
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FeaturesThe best possible taste
Fancy a home in Dubai built in the Arab eclectic style on a man-made island shaped like a palm tree? For a mere £500,000? Well, the Beckhams do – and we know what connoisseurs they are …
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Duke sued over 300 mm 'trespass'
A company owned by the Duke of Westminster is at the centre of a High Court dispute over a 300 mm strip of land at a central London office redevelopment
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NewsLife’s a beach
This £100m residential project is under way at Carlyon Bay, in Cornwall. The 500 glass-fronted holiday homes and leisure and retail facilities together make up the largest privately funded development in the county. The developer is the Ampersand Group and the design is by Evans & Shalev, the practice behind ...
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Spending watchdog targets London Underground PPP
Parliamentary watchdog the National Audit Office is due to publish a report on the London Underground public–private partnership early next year.
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Dutch parachute into Barking
Dutch architect Maxwan has been appointed to draw up a masterplan to salvage a regeneration project at Barking Reach in Dagenham, east London
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Cedric Price, architect and thinker, dies at 70
Cedric Price, one of Britain's most provocative and inspirational architectural thinkers of the past half century, has died aged 70.
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NewsTrawling for teenagers
The Construction Industry Training Board this week launched its latest advertising campaign to encourage school leavers and graduates to consider a career in construction. Advertisements appeared in magazines such as Loaded, FHM, Match, The New Musical Express, Bliss and Smash Hits. Most of them are revised versions of the designs ...
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NewsDublin's even fairer city
A £50m extension to Dublin airport is out to tender. Designed by the London office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it is the first European airport project by the US architect. An elevated, covered walkway will connect the extension to the terminal and sweep in a wide arc around the ...
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RICS: Too broad a church?
New RICS chairman Nick Brooke wants to go global but many QSs are reluctant to fund the move.
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A hitch in time
This was an appeal by the claimant, VAI, from a decision of 30 October 2002 striking out the particulars of claim on the basis that the claim was statute barred. On 5 September 1994 Davy (later taken over by VAI) entered into a contract with Bostock for the supply of ...
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FeaturesComeback kid?
Down Kenneth Clarke may be, out he certainly isn't. The man who claims to have invented PFI is on bullish form and ready to take on contractors, civil servants, bankers – oh, and the Labour government, of course, for messing up his big idea.
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Justice au naturel
The reliance on third party experts has dangers for adjudicators, particularly with regard to fairness. Fortunately, a recent case provides guidance
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FeaturesAll you need, all the time
Imagine project data, emails and the company file server at your fingertips, whether on site or on the move. Then again, why waste time imagining: wireless technology is here and it’s about to do to data exchange what the mobile did to voice communication.
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Bank extends loan deadline for High-Point Rendel
Barclays agrees to two-month breathing space to repay £3m loan after clients fail to pay consultant's fees.
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NewsStar architects chosen for Crossrail station redesigns
McAslan and Wilkinson Eyre among practices appointed as Crossrail boss lays out PFI funding plan.