Opinion – Page 459
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Comment‘Relax, babe’
What Dennis Hopper told Amanda Levete and other Vegas stories, plus the secret story of Wembley’s image rights
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CommentNothing safe about our houses
So Peter Hain’s first act as secretary of state for work and pensions was to call an inquest into why so many people are dying on building sites – 17 more this year than last.
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CommentKeep shouting and we’ll keep failing
The pig-headed behaviour of some trade associations is wasting a priceless opportunity to reform the Construction Act to everyone’s advantage
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Are you ready for the big one?
Continuing our catastrophic theme, here’s a warning about the advisability of preparing for something going very badly wrong indeed – together with a checklist to help you do it
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CommentThe devil in the detail
Heard the one about the contractor/consultant/client laid low by a few innocent-sounding sentences in their contract? In the first of a series, Helen Garthwaite looks at a cap on liability
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CommentWacky races
This week’s leaders are Richard Rogers, a cyclist who’s rumoured to be taking performance-enhancing taxis, Jack Pringle – quite pacy on a wooden leg – and HOK, driving round town in a summer pavilion …
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Thanks, but no pranks
I would like to correct the impression given by your article about the investigation into the YouTube videos of on-site pranks (July 20, page 10).
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Equity can aid housing crisis
The government has finally acknowledged that the crisis in affordable housing will have disastrous repercussions for the economy (July 27, page 20).
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Missive attack
I always enjoy reading Building, not only because it contains interesting features and news, but because it is very clearly laid out and easy on the eye.
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Third time unlucky
HG Construction Limited was engaged as contractor by Ashwell Homes (East Anglia) Limited for the development of new housing in Cambridgeshire. The contract was based on the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract With Contractor’s Design (1998 Edition). The contract provided for sectional completion. Disputes arose and there were four ...
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Put it in writing
The claimant, Mott MacDonald Ltd (MM), is a specialist construction engineering consultant. It undertook a variety of engineering services for the defendant, property developer London & Regional Properties Ltd (LRP) in relation to the phase 2 infrastructure works for a business park at Park Royal, London. These services, which included ...
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CommentSupreme indifference
The construction industry has largely ignored the JCT’s prime cost contract, largely because it doesn’t do prime cost procurement. But that may change in the near future …
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CommentHere’s the pitch
Our industry will never have the skills or resources to communicate to a mass audience in the way of a great film director like Sydney Pollack, but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn a trick or two ...
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CommentPolicies for a rainy day
In hindsight, Yvette Cooper probably wishes she’d waited for a break in the weather before launching her green paper.
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CommentYou bought it, you pay for it
Question: When does a main contractor have to pay a subcontractor for work that it hasn’t done? Answer: When it agreed a fixed-price lump sum contract based on issued drawings …
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CommentBuilding windmills in Cloud Cuckoo Land
Open mike — The GLA wants office buildings to generate 20% of the energy they use. The only problem with this, says Richard Kauntze, is it can’t be done. So here’s a proposal that will work