Opinion – Page 582
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Damage limitation
The claimant, a development company, issued proceedings for negligence against the defendant, their retained architectural consultants, as a result of water penetration into the rear basement structure of a number of houses in a terrace which the claimant was refurbishing for investment purposes. The defendant issued Part 20 proceedings against ...
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CommentLeave the act alone
The plan, announced in the Budget, to set up the CIPER forum is deeply troubling. It will be a kind of secret society, and it will want to change the Construction Act
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Reality check
The Court of Appeal has just added two heaped spoonfuls of common sense to the rules on what adjudicators can do without breaching natural justice
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The links effect
Specification duties are not the sole preserve of the architect. Manufacturers, contractors and installers all contribute to the choices that can make or break a building. In this flooring and roofing bumper issue, we look at the key links in the supply chain in an aeronautical extension to RAF Hendon ...
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CommentOpen mike: Enemies of the people
In the first of a series of guest columns, Jeff Howell, The Sunday Telegraph's construction writer, explains what shocks the public most about their builders
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CommentMarketwatch: private medicine/laboratories
We all know about PFI hospitals and LIFT schemes and how they are dominating the medical construction market.
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Comment*Cosying up ...
Building's series of profiles of clients with lots of work to hand out continues with Mitchells & Butlers, one of the UK's largest licensed retailing companies.
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*Tips on making an acquisition
Lee Teste is a partner at Manchester-based consultant TMG Corporate Finance. His recent work has involved advising on Charles Evans Group's acquisition of Stockport Joinery and Stockport Windows.
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Diabolical liabilities
The Construction Industry Council is reponding to changes in the insurance market by insisting that the client takes on consultants' extra risk. This won't do
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Not you again
Adjudications are meant to settle disputes cheaply, but there are many ways that the parties can thwart this simple goal. Amec discovered a couple of good ones
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No busted flush
I must take issue with Nick Henchie's article "Mediation is a busted flush" (19 March, page 64), particularly the suggestion that the parties need to spend "massive amounts" to prepare a case for mediation and that mediators need to be involved "procedurally, often many months before the mediation, and ...
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The power of the mediator
Nick Henchie (19 March, page 64) suggests that many disputes successfully resolved by mediation would have been settled more cost-effectively had the parties engaged in "the most overlooked method of dispute resolution", namely good old fashioned, without prejudice meetings and face-to-face negotiations.I would guess that few, if any, industries ...
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Have a little faith, Tony
I was surprised and alarmed by my friend Tony Bingham's recent piece "Private prejudice" about the Court of Appeal's decision in CWS vs ICL (27 February, page 52).
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A game of dominoes
I am writing to express my full support for Roger Coonie, president of the Association of Technical Lighting and Access Specialists, on the issue of retentions abuse (23 January, page 33).
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Less risk in first party
I read with interest Robert Akenhead's article regarding the provision of all-risks insurance policies (20 February, page 49).
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He stands corrected
I always considered Hansom to be the (almost) perfect English gentleman, but my doubts were raised following one of the items in one of his columns (26 March, page 33). He referred to "the trooping of the colour" in Horse Guards Parade, London, when any ...
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CommentWonders & blunders
Tony Miller pays his respects to the shrine of natural history but finds no enlightenment in Le Courbusier’s celebrated chapel