Insurance of course. It’s taken us months to think of this one and it was staring us in the face all along. What is Insurance? Everything needs insurance. Whether it’s ‘Construction All Risks’, or ‘Delay in Start Up’, good old...
H Is For…Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. Snappy title this month. Don’t worry you’ll be forgiven if it doesn’t sound like the most exciting article on the blog. Despite the title, this Act is possibly one of the most important in the world of...
Good Faith is one of those terms people bandy around all the time on construction sites. PMs and commercial people love to talk about acting in, ‘Good Faith’ (or ‘Bona Fides’ if they went to school with Boris Johnson). But does it actually mean...
FIDIC – the industry in which we work is replete with acronyms – SCL, CIOB, JCT, NEC, etc! This one is French – Federation International Des Ingineurs-Conseil. The French engineers association – most widely known for their suite of standard...
What is an expert? Wikipedia tells us that in Babylonia, midwives would identify whether women were fertile or not. Arguably the earliest type of formal expert. Things have moved on a little since those days. Being an expert can be quite a lucrative profession, but as...
…this was a fairly obvious one. Continuing our personal alphabet of things we’ve learned about construction and law, if there’s one thing we’ve learned in the past 20 years, it’s that there will always be disputes to resolve. Here are a...
