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Adjudication’s added value
Arguments about whether there is a contract can be more expensive to resolve than the argument about whatever the argument’s about. But adjudication is set to change all that.
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What are your intentions?
Does a letter of intent constitute a contract? It depends what the parties’ intention is and what’s in the letter. If you want a legally binding document, it’s best to write it as a mini-contract.
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Your new best friend
A good relationship with your bank manager can prove vital for the survival of your business. Accountant Smith & Williamson looks at how to keep the bank on your side.
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Cost model: Multiplex cinemas
Since 1985, nearly 2000 multiplex cinemas have opened, mainly on out-of-town sites. Now government planning guidance is forcing cinema operators back into town centres. Cost consultant Davis Langdon & Everest examines the design, specification and costs of urban multiplexes
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Strange ways
The Institute of Personnel and Development’s Angela Baron delves into the wacky world of management training.
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Appointments
ContractorsRay Shine and Andrew Wyllie have been appointed directors of the construction division at Taylor Woodrow. David White has become finance director. Tony Bickerstaff, Roger Blundell, Neil Johnson, Tim Peach, Graham Quinion, Norman Reed and Gerald Slack have been made divisional directors. Richard Dean has been made managing director of ...
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BDP/Bovis launch rival to London Eye
Prague to get bigger wheel as rival group plans to build more around the world.
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Schal gets closer to Carillion to offer clients lump-sum
Construction manager to capitalise on financial clout of parent Carillion in response to clients’ criticism.
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Burt and Cain quit to join private sector
Treasury procurement and development chief Mike Burt is to leave the civil service for the private sector. The news coincides with the announcement that Clive Cain, quality director at Defence Estates, is also joining the private sector.Burt, who has worked closely with the construction industry in implementing the Egan reforms ...
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CIB pushes Constructionline
The Construction Industry Board is leading a call by industry umbrella bodies for the Constructionline list of government-approved firms to be the industry standard.The call follows concern that in-house and commercial lists are still commonly used, two years after the database was established.In an open letter, CIB chairman Christopher Vickers ...
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Opening of Libeskind’s Jewish Museum delayed
Berlin landmark to open one year late because of work to improve security and cope with more visitors.
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MPs’ inquiry slams Portcullis contract award
A House of Commons Commission inquiry has found that “serious mistakes” were made in the award of the £30m-plus cladding contract for Portcullis House.The inquiry was launched after the House of Commons was successfully sued by US cladder Harmon after the Parliamentary Works Directorate, which is responsible for the £250m ...
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UK architect to design PFI hospital in Soweto
HLM Design’s £50m hospital redevelopment aims to export private finance initiative expertise to South Africa.
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Lack of funds threatens minorities taskforce
Change the Face of Construction facing collapse because the industry is “not willing” to commit funds.
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Blair heads attractions at record Building Awards
1300-strong audience watches PM’s first speech on construction at Grosvenor House Hotel.
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Morley’s cricket school makes Edgbaston debut
David Morley and Bryant Priest Newman’s £2.4m “Lord’s II” school opens for Warwickshire.
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Comment
Keep your boots muddy
First person The dot-com-dominated City is no place for contractors. They should opt out and take ownership into their own hands.
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There once was an ugly duckling …
Provincial towns are being given much-needed makeovers to enable them to compete with their more fashionable neighbours.
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Energetic exchange
Speakers at Brufma’s Building Energy Efficiency conference earlier this month called for a “revolution” in the industry’s thinking to meet the forthcoming radical changes to Part L.
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‘They just quietly beaver away, changing the face of the world’
Designing buildings is one thing, but working out where to place them to maximise their use requires in-depth analysis of public spaces. Which is where a little-known firm called Space Syntax comes in.