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No excuses
The government has taken considerable flak for its plans to reduce Health and Safety Executive (HSE) funding, but the construction industry mustn鈥檛 this as an excuse for rising accident and death rates. After all, this is an industry-wide responsibility.
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What鈥檚 changed?
Having just read an article by Rupert Choat (16 November, page 80), my mind returned to a report compiled by the late John Huxtable.
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No company for QSs
Further to Jon De Maria鈥檚 assumption that both he and the cockroaches will be left standing after an apocalypse (Inbox, 25 January, page 30), I regret to inform him that if the apocalypse is of the nuclear type, he will surely be standing alone.
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CommentIt鈥檚 just not good enough
Public authorities have to treat all bidders with perfect impartiality. As perfection is quite a high standard to meet, many are judged wanting. Like this client here 鈥�
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CommentLiving in harmony
The Olympic park can be completed on time and without conflict between the sectors 鈥� but the strategies to ensure good relations must be sorted now.
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CommentA tale of three cities
Rome, Mumbai and Marrakesh each have much to tell us about how cities work, how they fail and the possibilities they offer to those who live in them.
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CommentThe RIBA bites back
Open mike聽鈥� Shortly before Christmas, two of our legal columnists wrote unkind words about the RIBA鈥檚 new standard conditions for hiring an architect. Here, the editor offers a critique of his own
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Ringway Infrastructure Services Ltd vs Vauxhall Motors Ltd
The claimant applied for summary judgment to enforce a decision of an adjudicator. The contract between the parties was or incorporated the JCT Standard Form of 黑洞社区 Contract with Contractor鈥檚 Design 1998 Edition, incorporating amendments 1-5. The claimant was employed to construct a vehicle distribution centre to carry out various ...
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CommentI鈥檒l get you later
This is the story of a client that decided to sue a contractor but not its consultants. Then it changed its mind and went after them, too. The consultants claimed that this was abuse of process 鈥� but were they right?
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Know your limits
The Law Commission wants a rethink of the law on limitations and this year you are invited to comment on the proposals. So here鈥檚 what they鈥檙e about鈥�
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CommentThe lawyers鈥� playground
There have been more than 300 court decisions that 鈥榗larify鈥� the meaning of the Construction Act. The result is that only our learned friends really understand what the rules are
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CommentWeb watch 鈥� Golden nuggets
If you want the latest environmental information in easily digestible, bite-sized chunks, you really should log on to 黑洞社区鈥檚 sustainability channel. Phil Clark explains why
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Comment黑洞社区 inaugurates a coffee machine 鈥� with HTA
鈥淚鈥檓 not drinking until April,鈥� boasts Riette as she sips her hot water and lemon. I feel a little guilty as I knock back a double espresso.
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CommentClose shaves
While Willmott Dixon employees escape with their jobs, Make鈥檚 staff avoid being crushed by a steel tree and Gordon Brown dodges Mandarin quantity surveying manuals
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Every cloud
I read your piece 鈥淐onstruction firms will take credit crunch hit in 2008鈥� (11 January, page 20) with interest. It claimed insolvencies across all industries are set to rise 8.3% to 13,492 next year, with construction singled out as one of the biggest casualties.
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CommentThe QS and the cockroach
As a loud and proud QS I have been reading about the imminent demise of our noble art for as long as I can remember.