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How to do 32 jobs at once
The first standard form of contract for facilities management is here, and it covers everything from insurance to cleaning in terms that construction firms will find strangely familiar.
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Relationship difficulties
There is a consensus that partnering is the way forward. But the concept is vague, and it may have unexpected effects on relationships within the project team it may even provide contractors with brand-new excuses.
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Who do you think you are?
A JCT provision allows firms to sue employers that ultimately pay them but with which they have no contract. Is this really a good idea?
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Clash points
Should natural justice apply to adjudication? If it does, you can kiss goodbye to the main purpose of the Construction Act. Fortunately, it doesn t. So that s OK then?
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Clash points
Half right. In fact, natural justice does apply, albeit within the constraints of adjudication s statutory framework after all, a process that is obviously unfair will not attract many supporters.
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Fighting terms
Performance specifications allow the industry to work together to produce optimal solutions - as long as the contract fosters teamwork. Unfortunately, JCT98 does not.
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Materials life costs
The third in Building s series of whole-life costs for materials focuses on double-glazed units. It is compiled by Building Performance Group to help specifiers.
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Best foot forward
Nancy Cavill meets Dr Jaz Saggu, the man in charge of Bovis' new best-practice training programme.
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Appointments
Contractors Ian Smith , formerly with Bovis Construction, has joined building and civil engineering contractor Charles Le Quesne as managing director. John Mowlem has appointed Louisa Blair to its market management contracting and major projects division. Mansell has promoted Philip Cleaver to the newly ...
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Have you got what it takes?
Are your projects models of best practice others could learn from? Egan called for firms to nominate their innovative schemes as demonstration projects. Here are four that made the grade.
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Wessex Water, Bath
A client committed to reducing environmental impact, an architect known for low-energy design and a construction manager anxious to test green construction techniques form the team behind one of the most ambitious of the projects. The £22m operations centre for 550 Wessex Water staff, under way on a rare ...
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Office development, Watford
True perfection or as near to it as imperfect construction professionals can get is the ambitious goal at the Radius project, a 5000 m 2 speculative office development in Watford. Developer Guardian Properties, architect Hurley Robertson Associates, consulting engineer WSP and contractor Wates have set ...
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Science building, Bristol University
Bristol University s new, £12m Synthetic Chemistry Building embodies much of the construction industry s post-Latham, post-Egan gospel. Two-stage tendering, a non-adversarial contract, off-site fabrication and value engineering may not be ground-breaking in themselves. But, taken together, they represent a large part of the construction industry s New Testament. ...
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Berkeley in talks to buy Battersea site
Housebuilder and developer keen to build homes around power station in £500m scheme.
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Rogers calls for clampdown on greenfield projects
Environmental-impact fee for developers is one of architect s 100 recommendations to John Prescott. Environmental-impact fee for developers is one of architect s 100 recommendations to John Prescott.
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Prescott to use report for white papers
Deputy prime minister John Prescott welcomed the urban taskforce report and promised that its recommendations would form the framework of the government s forthcoming urban and rural white papers. However, Prescott appeared to backtrack on the government s commitment to ensure that 60% of new homes are built on brownfield ...
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Prescott orders inquiry into 2000 village bust-up
Deputy prime minister calls for full report after architect HTA resigns from compromised project.
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Architects urged to stop sulking over procurement
Arts minister Alan Howarth calls on architects to stop behaving defensively over design and build.
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‘No big contracts in Kosovo,’ says taskforce
The government's Kosovo taskforce returned from its reconnaissance mission on Tuesday and warned that there were no big projects for contractors. Trade minister John Battle, who led the team, said on his return to RAF Northolt: There are a lot of misconceptions. There was no devastation on a major ...