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 contract forms. If you don’t do a lot of work outside the UK, then this […]
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 we learnt on an SCL course a few years […]
…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 few of the techniques we’ve come across: Expert Determination An expert in a particular […]
We were going to do Collateral Warranties, but thought we’d save that for another day! If you want more on them, head over to Sarah Fox’s excellent website and take a look at her latest book. For now, the Contract, as it’s something we understand a bit more clearly… From what we’ve been told, it’s the […]
Brexit? No. Even we’re beginning to tire of it now. B is of course, for BIM. Building Information Modelling, Better Information Management, Digital Construction, The Digital Twin, The Future… We’ve got a bit of a thing about this. Is it a continuation of things that have been going on for a long time? In 2004 […]
The A-Z of Construction & Law We’re hoping this will be a regular, maybe even weekly series of things we’ve learned about construction and law in the past 20 years. First up, All-Risks Insurance What is it? Many contracts will require the contractor to take out ‘all risks’ insurance to cover reinstatement of the works […]