Although we are being told that the financial meltdown has been averted and that we are “only” facing a plain old-fashioned recession now I can’t help wondering whether there will be any aftershocks in the financial world.
REUTERS | Toby Melville
October 30, 2008
Where is your retention money held?
REUTERS | Jose Miguel Gomez
October 29, 2008
Are you too tired to get “contractural”?
A less than serious post to kick off this blog:
A Google engineer has developed a way to avoid random emailing late at night when you’re most likely to be “tired”. Jon Perlow’s new Mail Goggles application, built into Google’s GMail service, forces the user to answer basic maths questions in 60 seconds before a message can be sent on its way.
Should this be applied to correspondence between warring parties when construction projects get into dispute? Continue reading
REUTERS | Damir Sagolj
October 29, 2008
CEDR launches new adjudication rules and its adjudication panel
Yesterday evening I attended the above event, otherwise known as “How can ADR be improved for the construction industry?”
REUTERS | Jose Miguel Gomez
October 27, 2008
Packaging construction and engineering documents
Everyone involved in construction and engineering appreciates the effort involved in planning a project and choosing an appropriate procurement strategy. All too often that work is undermined by careless errors made when compiling the contract documents into a formal agreement. The resulting disputes can be expensive and time-consuming. Here are some tips for avoiding trouble: Continue reading
REUTERS | Ognen Teofilovski
October 24, 2008
Serial adjudications: a blight on the adjudication landscape, or an inevitable consequence of the process?
If the challenge is made early in the proceedings, before the responding party has incurred substantial costs, then I am more likely to resign.
The recent cases of Birmingham City Council v Paddison Construction Ltd [2008] EWHC 2254 and Benfield Construction Ltd v Trudson (Hatton) Ltd [2008] EWHC 2333(see PLC’s update), (and the previous case of HG Construction Ltd v Ashwell Homes (East Anglia) Ltd [2007] EWHC 144) have reminded everyone of the dangers of trying to adjudicate the same dispute more than once. Continue reading
REUTERS | Navesh Chitrakar
October 24, 2008
How to stay on the right side of the adjudicator
We adjudicators are only human, although sometimes the parties act in a manner that suggests they have forgotten. I would advise the parties to avoid a number of practices or behaviours during an adjudication: Continue reading
REUTERS |
October 24, 2008
Welcome
I am delighted to bring you PLC Construction.
The breadth of the launch site is built on the labours of PLC Construction’s professional support team, with incredible support from within PLC and from many contributors, so a huge thank you to all.
I hope you enjoy the site. Here are some of its highlights: Continue reading
