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Are you a blue or a red? - Dealing with concurrent delay

There are very few UK construction projects that start and finish on time. The majority are complex and have to rely on a successful interaction of a significant number of factors if completion is to be achieved by an agreed date. Many simply do not.

Pay when Paid and Insolvent Employers

"Pay when paid" clauses are supposed to be a concept of a bygone era. Main Contractors would seek to justify their inclusion in a sub-contract by arguing that it should not be the guarantor of payments that are due to pass from an Employer through to the Main Contractor before onward payment to its Sub-Contractors.

Getting to Yes

"Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In" is a best-selling 1981 non-fiction book written by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury...

A Sting in the Tale

It is very tempting for a party to a construction contract to seek to amend the clauses of a standard form of contract in order to shift the commercial balance of the agreement in its favour. Tolent Construction, who by the way is not alone, did just this in its amendments to the Construction Industry Council Model Adjudication Procedure which Tolent incorporated into its "non-standard" standard sub-contract (if you see what I mean) when it introduced the following amendments to clauses 28 and 29 of the CIC rules to read...

Construction Act Seminars

The Local Democracy, Economic Development & Construction Act 2009 comes in to effect from 1 October 2011. Are you up to date with the changes?

Improving an Old Friend

By the time the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 ("Construction Act 2009") comes into force on 1 October 2011, 4,901 days will have passed from the implementation of its forerunner, the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 ("Construction Act 1996") which was implemented on 1 May 1998.

Double Jeopardy? - check your Terms!

Builders and sub-contractors up and down the UK are having a tough time. Work is in short supply and margins are virtually non-existent. So now may be a good time to spread some potentially good news amongst colleagues and friends in the building industry ...