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Collaboration key to successful projects

Establishing lasting relationships, trust and setting clear objectives and responsibilities are crucial to successfully implementing a collaborative working philosophy on projects, said Argent partner Tony Giddings in the JCT Povey Lecture in London last week.

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Civils firms criticise open tenders

Growing use of open tenders by clients encourages too many bidders and has been identified as a key contributor to unsustainably escalating bidding costs by civil engineering contractors, says the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA).

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Commercial court to make e-filing compulsory

Electronic filing of all documents required to be on the court file may become mandatory in the Commercial Court from next year, Mr Justice Blair has said.

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November issue of Construction Law out now

This month’s issue of Construction Law is now with subscribers, containing the usual blend of informed, incisive analysis of news and court decisions as well as in depth guidance and comment on key issues.

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New Pre-Action Protocol launched

A revised Pre-Action Protocol for Construction and Engineering Disputes has been prepared and published by TECBAR and TeCSA, and is expected to come into force on 9 November.

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Call for procurement reform

Contractors are calling on government to take a fresh look at how infrastructure is procured and introduce reforms to ‘burdensome’ procurement processes.

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Clients happy with performance

Results of Key Performance Indicator (KPI) research from Glenigans show marked improvement in construction cost and time predictability, especially for the design process.

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Modernise or die message

Construction has been told it must ‘modernise or die’ in a report from consultant Mike Farmer commissioned by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC).

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News in brief: November 2016

From January 2017 the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) will be an executive agency of the Treasury, Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced. The NIC will be given its own budget and autonomy to provide advice on infrastructure priorities, but agency status stops short of the statutory independence and powers that construction bodies say it needs.

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Legal terms explained: Head office overheads and profit claims

When projects overrun, the delay can increase the cost to the contractor of working on the project. There are various heads of loss that a contractor may want to claim, but two highly contentious heads of loss are head office overheads (also known as off-site overheads) and loss of profit.

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