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Time to mandate adjudication pupillage?

Caroline McDermott of Turner & Townsend and Kirsti Olson of Dentons UK and Middle East LLP suggest pupillage as one way to increase the supply of adjudicators.

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New and proposed legislation: State of play table 284

This table, prepared by Alignment Media, provides a regularly amended guide to new and proposed legislation that will affect the construction industry. In addition to EU Directives and UK legislation, the table includes notes highlighting discussion papers issued by both government and non-government organisations, and commentary on the latest developments.

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Legal terms explained: Value Engineering

In a construction context, value engineering usually refers to the process of reducing the cost of a project through changes to the method and type of construction or specification, without making major reductions in scope or compromising on functionality or quality.

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Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, and the Construction Industry

Guest Editors Vanessa Alarcon Duvanel, Alex Levin Canal and Alexandra Gerdes of King & Spalding LLP suggest that contractual incentives to get to net zero are a parallel and possibly faster, more flexible and less burdensome option to promote sustainable behaviour.

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Reports from the courts: October 2023

Our round up of the cases of most interest to construction from Andrew Croft and Ben Spannuth of Beale & Company Solicitors LLP who report on a decision that shows the importance of limitation periods; and an appeal court ruling that confirms the duties owed to developers under s1(1) of the DPA.

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Express Yourself

A recent decision from the Scottish Court of Session suggests that Scottish and English courts are now aligned in assigning primacy to the written word in contract interpretation, as Katherine Doran and Dylan Higgins of DWF LLP explain.

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Construction Law Guide to: The site

The latest in our regular Construction Law Guides series comes from Joanne Bennett of DLA Piper, who examines legal issues relating to construction sites, including access, responsibility for the site, unforeseen conditions and ownership of materials on site.

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Building Safety Act 2022: remediation orders and the implications for the construction sector

Pauline Lam of Russell-Cooke and Robert Bowker of Tanfield Chambers examine the first Remediation Order under the Building Safety Act 2022, which is expected to have significant implications for the construction industry.

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Breaking the Mould: Water Ingress Building Defects and the Scourge of Black Mould

Modern houses can be dangerous places to live, placing increasing stress on efficiently supervising construction. Philip Bambagioti of 3PB examines the potentially fatal consequences of failure to build to prevent black mould forming in the event of water ingress.

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Appeal court backs adjudicator’s decision

Stephanie Geesink and Dom Turner-Harriss of Watson Farley & Williams take a detailed look at a successful appeal against a Technology and Construction Court decision reported on earlier this year. No breach of natural justice was created when an adjudicator decided he was bound by an earlier adjudication decision, the appeal court ruled.

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