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Article about project fees
After much prevarication we finally bit the bullet and wrote an article about fees. The demise of fee scales published by industry institutes has left clients completely in the dark and at the mercy of invisible market forces. So we decided to do something about it. You may love it, hate it, disagree, or have ideas for things we’ve missed, but the great thing is this is a wiki site so all you need to do is click EDIT and change it. Read our Fees article
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Green infrastructure
Kirsten Henson and Sophie Frith of KLH Sustainability explain the objectives of the ICE Low Carbon Lifed Panel. The Panel is generating two outputs for launch in early 2014: The first is a high level carbon footprinting standard for infrastructure projects. The second is a thought piece about how to encourage the UK to innovate, lower costs and improve the whole-life value of infrastructure assets. Read more...
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Najma Dunnett on Oakapple Homes v DTR
A property was destroyed by fire and a claim brought against the Defendant for design and inspection breaches. To bring claims against the Defendant, executed warranties were required in their favour. The issues for the court to unravel were: (i) could the Defendant raise the defence of contributory negligence against the Contractor (ii) could the Defendant’s professional indemnity insurers deny coverage of claims due to an exclusion in the policy? Read more...
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Changes are afoot
Watch out for some changes in the next few weeks. We'll be improving user profiles (your 'page about me') so you'll be able to add a profile photo, email and web address, twitter-style summary of who you are and anything else you want. Then, if you insert your user signature at the bottom of articles you write, it will automatically link to your profile page.
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