7 November 2006
Victoria Russell, in a paper given at the third Fenwick Elliott seminar entitled “Capital Projects in the Education Sector”, discusses the duties and liabilities of construction professionals from architects, engineers and quantity surveyors to project managers and facilities managers. The paper considers duties and liabilities owed to the employer, duties owed in tort and to third parties as well as the duties and liabilities of in-house construction professionals.
July 2011
November 2009
Jeremy Glover, in a paper given at the latest Fenwick Elliott Capital Projects in the Education Sector Seminar, discusses the work being done by CODEP, in relation to the construction of a new learning and literary resource centre in Waterloo, Sierra Leone.
23 April 2007
Jeremy Glover, in a paper prepared for the 13 th Adjudication Update Seminar, considers the different ways in which disputes can be managed and thereby avoided. The paper includes a discussion about how the NEC form of contract has adopted a form of early warning procedure designed to help minimise actual disputes and also looks at some of the alternatives to statutory adjudication including Project Mediation and the Adjudication Board.
August 2004
In a paper prepared for construction programme Video TEN (the Einstein Network), Simon Tolson considers the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act and, in particular, looks at the steps which need to be taken from 1 October 2004 to ensure that premises comply with that legislation, the aim of which is to curb discrimination against disabled people in their access to the provision of services and employment. The paper includes practical advice on compliance.
7 May 2010
Simon Tolson in an article first published in Building considers the crucial role judges can play in litigation, focussing on the decision of Mr Justice Coulson in the Brookfield v Mott MacDonald case
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