Opinion – Page 560
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Everyone’s a winner
The Housing Corporation has been given the power to make grants to private housebuilders – but believe it or not, housing associations stand to gain from this as well
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CommentThe theory of black holes
he phrase ‘defined provisional sum’ in the JCT98 contracts may lead employers to believe that they have price certainty. In fact, they have nothing of the sort
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The prongs of doom
Time and again adjudications end in failure because the courts detect bias. Here’s another case where a botched job inevitably results in a load of wasted money
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Romania revamps its image
Romania aims to join the European Union in 2007 and is trying hard to attract foreign investment – but there are few large black bats still flapping around
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UK shares Europe’s guilt
As reported in Building (19 November, page 15), Alan Wood has exposed the unfair practices that European governments use to exclude British companies from their public sector contracts.
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A BTEC in boredom
Having enjoyed a reasonably successful career in construction and having a 16-year-old son with the prospect of 10 good GCSEs and no particular idea what he wants to do, I persuaded him to apply for a BTEC in construction.
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Wonders & blunders
RIBA president-elect Jack Pringle vows that a former icon will rise again but would rather see a Holborn hotel buried without trace
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CommentThe scrabble for cash
Four years ago, when construction was comfortably ensconced at the old Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, the government ran a scheme called Partners in Innovation.
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CommentGetting up to speed
When we started putting together our preview of 2005, we didn’t pre-judge the issues.
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Doorstepping
James Moody took on the managing director’s role at the newly reorganised Eastern region of housebuilder Crest Nicholson three months ago, and he had to hit the ground running. Not only is he managing existing sites – he also had to find himself an office
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CommentGlory days
Our building sites are bloodless descendants of the sites of the roaring 50s, when men were men, lavatories were buckets and passers-by were fair game
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CommentLet’s be Belgian
Our system of project insurance wastes about £1bn a year, and invariably leads to the courts. Why can’t we have project-based insurance, as they do on the Continent?
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CommentKindly leave the stage
It’s an accepted rule that if an adjudicator throws out a claim, the losing party can’t rush out and hire another one. But in this case, that’s exactly what happened …
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Tell it to the judge
All forms of dispute resolution involve a scary degree of uncertainty, complexity or cost. Now a proposed shake-up of the courts promises a better alternative