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Site lines
These sites are billed as the "construction marketplace" and the "one-stop guide to the industry". Do they live up to their slogans?
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Constructiongateway.Com.UK
This site by Business to Business Internet sets out to provide an information highway for construction, but it looks overcrowded and unfocused. It claims that it is a “one-stop” guide to the UK industry and it does provide links to other sites, but it is fiddly to use.The search facility ...
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Don't forget to write
Does the Construction Act apply if there is only an oral agreement? The act seems to say yes, but the judge in a recent case said no. Clearly it's an urgent case for treatment.
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The threat of exposure
Adjudication has put insurers under pressure. So what do they do? Pass the burden of risk on to their policyholders, of course, inventing all manner of get-out clauses to make it hard for them to recover.
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Good as their words
The second article in a series on collateral warranties looks at the principal warranty, supplementary warranties and a vital aspect of professional indemnity insurance.
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Clash points
Pay-when-paid has been outlawed at the end of the subcontract chain, but the industry is still passing risk to firms in the middle. Why not have stand-alone contracts with each party accepting its share of liability?
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Clash points
True, subcontractors are still being forced to bear the same risk as main contractors, and stand-alone contracts are a fine idea. But it is clients that can really affect how liability is distributed.
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The power of speech
No amount of flash graphics and high-tech software can compensate for a presentation that is unstructured and hard to follow. Remember your first duty: to keep your audience awake.
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Cost model: Building services
Services installations are crucial to the smooth running of construction projects, as well as the finished product, but their complexities are too often ignored. Mott Green and Wall, the specialist building services team within Davis Langdon & Everest, examines the specification, procurement and costs of a City office’s building services
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A cunning plan
Don't drift between jobs or settle for second best. Start running your career like a business and maximise profit.
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Appointments
Contractors Bob Nethery has been appointed senior business development manager at the Scottish construction division of MJ Gleeson. David Kay has been promoted to managing director of its new national construction division. Keith Shivers replaces Kay as managing director of the Northern construction division. Steve Landes has been appointed commercial ...
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MPs launch inquiry into Tube funding
Angry contractors condemn “completely unnecessary” decision to scrutinise £7bn refurbishment.
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First secretary halts Welsh assembly job
The future of the £23m Welsh assembly building, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership, has been thrown into doubt after first secretary Rhodri Morgan ordered the project to be suspended.It is understood that Morgan is considering scrapping the building and staying at the assembly’s temporary home, converted office block Crickhowell House, ...
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Confederation ‘bitterly disappointed’ at budget
Construction Confederation chief Jennie Price slams Brown’s decision not to cut VAT to tackle cowboys.
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Tax card may be scrapped
The government may scrap one of the tax certificates introduced by the Construction Industry Scheme after considering the findings of a review announced in a post-budget briefing on Tuesday.Construction minister Nick Raynsford, who made a statement about the rethink of the scheme on Wednesday, said the review would assess the ...
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Newcastle's budget halls
A new international passenger terminal has been added to a terminal at Newcastle International Airport. The addition, along with the refurbishment of the existing terminal, cost £27m and increases the airport's capacity to 4 million passengers a year. Designed by Crispin Wride Architectural Design Studio and engineer Gibb, it is ...
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The West Country's Stansted
Opened earlier this month, the new £27m terminal to Bristol International Airport replaces a building on the other side of the runway. The clear-cut rectangular building beneath an oversailing canopy roof and behind clear-glazed walls stands as the symbolic gateway to the West Country. Its 17 500 m2 area, which ...
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Treasury to insist on PFI design quality
New guidelines for government clients puts architects at heart of bidding process.