Opinion – Page 604
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CommentNo free lunches
Tony Bingham Lost an adjudication? Don't want to pay the adjudicator's fee? Tough. Pay up or risk getting sued – and if you are, you may well end up paying those costs, too
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Who pays for plan B?
Changing the design that was given planning permission can lead to additional costs, so check that the contract makes it clear which pary is taking on that risk
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Anything you say …
Judges want the parties to a quarrel to sort it out themselves. Here's how they've been getting this across to those who've had the temerity to bother the courts
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An impossible job
Peter Rogers' comments seem to be an extension of the debate held within each profession, where the absence of holistic knowledge of every other discipline is lamented.
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Point taken, but …
I would like to thank Mr Merricks for taking the trouble to reply to my column (27 June, page 34).
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We're still learning
In response to the claim that project managers are not adequately trained (4 July, page 11), I would like to point out that the RICS has created the Project Management Faculty as part of its Agenda for Change.
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Margins schmargins
The writer of No leftovers (18 July, page 30) appears to be confused in comparing the margins in contracting with the margins obtained in the manufacturing industry.
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A fan of John Prescott
Our Romanian carpenter was overjoyed to get a mention in letters (What do you expect?, 11 July, page 32) and has taken to reading Building on a regular basis.
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A catch-25 situation
My work requires me to inspect commercial and industrial buildings, and to arrange for their maintenance.
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Problems can and will happen
The article "Whatever happened to Peabody's prefab?" (18 July, page 15) said that high winds and proximity to railway lines contributed to the delayed completion. This is not true.
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What we're all about
What distinguished professionals from tradesmen was their assumption of social superiority backed up by guaranteed fee rates. Now those have gone, what's left?
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Not much to look forward to
Last year a Building/Hays Montrose survey found that more than half of the magazine's readers were worried about their pensions. And they were right to be concerned.
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Reveal all before you decide
Stansell was a building contractor carrying out work in Union Street, Bristol. It engaged RSL as a subcontractor. The subcontract was based on the Standard Form of Domestic Sub-contract DOM/2 1981 edition (reprinted in 1998) incorporating amendments 1-8. Clause 38 contained adjudication provisions. A dispute arose in ...
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Making plans for Nigel
Small, efficient firms are being squeezed out by a government that is hand-in-glove with big construction. So, here are some suggestions for our new minister
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Logic of the madhouse
The government is trying to improve housing supply by making housebuilders' job so onerous that they would rather build their homes in China than Chingford
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Being sat on by a hippo
Memo to Nigel Griffiths: More and more small, solvent firms are being squashed by large, insolvent ones. At present they have almost no protection. Time to step in?
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CommentNo sex please
In their enthusiasm to make their case, disputants are likely to ‘sex up’ evidence. But good adjudicators, and good prime ministers, ought to be immune to spin
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After the fall
In the absence of a conventional government in Iraq, what is the legal status of contracts signed with state bodies? And how about those signed with Saddam's regime?