"Identifying and managing your legal expectations to avoid pitfalls in an increasingly demanding project role"

July 2011

In this paper, Nicholas Gould reviews professional liability with a particular emphasis on modern project management practice. In reality, this means a traditional form of forward thinking construction professionals (quantity surveyors, now commercial cost managers, or some other derivation, building surveyors, architects, engineers) that have expanded into the area of project management and those acting as employer’s agents (there are of course those who have qualified as project managers (PM) or taken a masters degrees in the subject).

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"Project security & guarantees"

May 2011

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"Corporate Manslaughter"

7 November 2006

Jon Miller, in a paper given at the third Fenwick Elliott seminar entitled “Capital Projects in the Education Sector”, sets out the status of the proposed Government reforms outlined in the new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill and discusses how these new reforms might effect you. 

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Construction: Insurance issues
February 2003

"Sustainability: a case of overpaid, oversexed and over here or something completely different?"

23 November 2009

Simon Tolson, in an article which formed part of a sustainability supplement in the Guardian, Sustainability and Innovative Construction, discusses the extent to which construction contracts are addressing sustainable development.

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"What might the changes to the CDM Regulations mean for you?"

April 2007

The revised Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 came into force on 6 April 2007. Jeremy Glover summarises the changes and revised responsibilities, (in particular including the enhanced duties on clients and employers), introduced by this new legislation.

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