Opinion – Page 596
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A watertight sieve
It's an all-risks insurance policy! Every single risk is covered! Nothing's left out! It's completely watertight! You can't lose! Unless, of course … Oh dear …
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When the neighbours can hear you
We all adore the French but anyone planning to get involved in construction operations there needs to be aware of their potential liabilities to the neighbours
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Beware of bunny boilers
Getting yourself out of a failed relationship with your builders can be liberating, but be very, very careful how you do it – they could take a terrible revenge …
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Brief encounter: The battle of words
Is the new 30-page JCT Major Projects Form dangerously scanty, or fashionably lean? Our chatroom guests weigh up the contract and its implications
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Smear campaign
A reader writes: Tony Clarke tells the story of how low morale led a site worker to express his feelings
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Too little, too late
"Four Pads" Prescott is in a pickle over housing again – and not just with his domestic arrangements.
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Legalised coupling
The limited liability partnership is a fresh legal vehicle, offering ease of upkeep, tax efficiency and manoeuvrability for consultants that work together
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Look before you leap
I'd like to invite Paul Reeder (24 October, Wonders and blunders, page 40) to come and visit the new-look Hayward Gallery.
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Creative problem solving
In your article, "Repeat after me: 'Yes I can run your project'", (17 October, page 44), you highlighted the requirement for project managers to be more focused on relationship management in their approach, and to be less process-driven.
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Strength in numbers
Reading "Repeat after me: 'Yes I can run your project'", I was taken back 30 years, to when I read Interdependence and Uncertainty, a report by the The Tavistock Institute, which had researched the construction professions and found that each one saw itself as pre-eminent.Sadly, little seems to have changed, ...
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52 ways to improve the industry
Congratulations on a review full of positive thinking and good ideas (Not the Egan review, 24 October, page 42).
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Where are the opportunities?
I am fed up reading about the industry's lack of profile and appeal.
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Prevention is better than cure
Rudi Klein (24 October, page 35) is right to point out that there is no room for defective thinking to remedy defective design.
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Supplier-led solutions
Although it is hard to disagree with the majority of Egan's basic views (24 October, page 42), by drawing on his experience in the car industry, he actually did the construction industry a disservice.
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Spot the adjudication loophole
I am advising a builder who has a dispute with a private residential client. His contract, a standard JCT98 form, states that there is provision for adjudication.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Simon Woodroffe raises a cup of saki to Foster and Partners' GLA building, but makes water in the direction of a London estate
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Making a mark on the 21st century
The Brick Development Association's annual Brick Awards showcase excellence in the use of brick, whether by architects, designers, engineers or brickwork contractors.
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Getting from A to B
The government can't work out why construction isn't delivering the schools and hospitals it promised the public. Actually, it's not that hard to see why