Opinion – Page 575
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CommentA reader writes: Why the Tricorn had to go
Contrary to what Owen Luder wrote last month, his Portsmouth shopping centre was ripe for demolition, simply because it failed in so many ways
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Pricey advice
This was a claim for professional negligence by a company incorporated to purchase a sea front hotel and adjacent land in Hunstanton, Norfolk, against the solicitors that acted for it on the purchase. The hotel had been purchased subject to three outstanding floating charges on the assets of the seller, ...
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Something about Germany
Europe's economic engine is once again in gear, but any UK firms thinking of returning to the market need to know about some recent changes in the law
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CommentDemons and angels
Claims mongerers are chasing ambulances in every walk of life. But adjudication shrived them of their sins in construction, and could be the answer elsewhere
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Designed by parrots
Much 'sustainable design' is in reality a few slogans and buzzwords repeated by architects and developers to win competitions and get planning permission
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Divided we fail
If we want buildings that don't endanger their occupants or break down in other ways, then we must play safe with their design.
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The Santa clauses
Clients have the same approach to indemnity clauses as small children do to Christmas lists. It's understandable, perhaps, but it's hardly realistic …
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The accidental jurist
If a party makes a mistake about what it is agreeing to, what are its chances of wriggling out? The Appeal Court has just made a controversial ruling on this point
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It's the contractors
Colin Harding's open letter to John Prescott (June 4, page 33) is typical of the lovely fellow.
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no, it's the architects
I was interested in Colin Harding's letter to John Prescott and that of Brian Law regarding the CDM Regulations (4 June, Letters, page 34).
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Way out with the count
While I was genuinely impressed with the victory of off-site manufacture over traditional build in your two-round bout (Homes, May, page 24), I feel I should point out that someone had not done their sums properly. The total cost per unit for traditional build should have been £218,000, making the ...
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Ups and downs
I was interested to read that Rod Maceachrane, commercial director of the National House Building Council, says that dispute resolution cases are down 14% year on year (16 April, page 43). The NHBC Annual Review records 4128 cases in 1997/98 rising to 7673 in 2001/02. The last figure was ...
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CommentA reader writes - Hobson's choices
John Hobson, until recently the man in charge of construction at the civil service, gives us his take on the future of sustainability and regulation
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CommentWonders & blunders
Paul Burgess praises an atrium that makes the heart soar, but missed chances just make it sore. And check out the new Back Issues …
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A profitable loss
The defendant let certain premises to the claimants under a lease within which the claimants were covenanted "well and substantially to repair renew cleanse and keep in good and substantial repair and condition and maintain the demised premises". Upon expiry of the lease the tenants claimed repayment of an amount ...
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The joy of bricks
I love brick buildings – if only the product was marketed imaginatively so that we had more of them, says architect Dr James Campbell
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The truth about the NFB
I read with interest a story on Eastern European labour in last week's Building (4 June, page 9).
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CommentThe nature of the beast
It may surprise you to learn that lawyers and academics are still not entirely sure what an adjudicator is, what they can do, and what they are like