Opinion – Page 594
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Suing the sewers
If overflowing sewers are driving you round the U-bend, don't hold out any hope of compensation from the water company – just get yourself a good mop
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What's in a handshake?
When a TV company started looking for a home for Fame Academy, it kept its options open with two potential agreements. If only it hadn't shook on one of them …
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An affair of the heart …
How rich for journalists, of all people, to be lecturing others on the perils of boozing and bingeing. Well, yes, all right.
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Axed? Not me
It is totally wrong for your magazine to have stated that the Richard Rogers Partnership had been "axed" by BAA (19 December, page 13).
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Another axe to grind
Your article (19 December 2003, page 13) about BAA cutting firms from its framework agreement is reported in such a way that will be damaging to our business and does not report our true working relationship with BAA.
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Like working for free?
It will never cease to amazed me how little attention is paid in the world of business to the ability of a client to pay and how easy it is to convince suppliers to provide goods and services on credit.
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Let's target the target-setters
I read with amusement the multiple stories in your 12 December issue (page 3 and15) arising from the woolly targets and grandiose statements issued by Dennis Lenard and Peter Rogers.
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A yell from the rebel
The Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors is not to be confused with the well respected ICE further down Great George Street from the RICS.
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Good old-fashioned advice
Tony Bingham is absolutely right (19 December, page 46) to advise that firms check the expertise and experience of any potential "other party" before entering into contracts.
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Employers beware
Tony Bingham's report on the case of Rupert Morgan Building Services vs Jervis and Jervis is fine as far as it goes (5 December, page 49).
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My cure-all health plan
We could improve construction in one fell swoop by making health and safety training a precondition for anybody becoming a company director
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CommentNo job for Superman
Any adjudicator who comes to a dispute too convinced of their own expertise may not be able to judge the case in an open-minded, impartial way
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Sit up and take notice
Do you have trouble figuring out whether you need to give notice of abatement? And do you know the difference between set-off and abatement? If not, read on
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Retro effect
Do the work then sign a contract. Bonkers? Maybe, but it happens all the time. If you ever do it, just make sure it’s clear the contract covers work already carried out
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Doing the twist
Judges don't like it when a party plays fast and loose with the adjudication process, shifting ground opportunistically or otherwise giving itself wriggle room
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Old-fashioned fun
My, isn't Edinburgh beautiful? It just goes to show, there's nothing wrong with revivalism and pastiche – after all, architecture used to be playful
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A matter of honours
It is little wonder that there were just nine architects, and precisely nobody from construction, among the 300 refuseniks revealed in the Sunday Times to have turned down a New Year's honour.
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Double jeopardy
If a contractor goes bust, a client can keep work on course by paying the subbie directly. But principles of insolvency law must be observed or they could shell out twice