Practical Law Construction

JULY 27, 2022

Rights and wrongs aside, for almost a decade since the Parkwood decision , it has been clear that in certain circumstances a collateral warranty may be deemed by a court to be a “ construction contract ” for the purposes of the Construction Act 1996. Parkwood – the importance of warranty language. What happened?

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Practical Law Construction

AUGUST 12, 2020

The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (CIGA 2020) came into force on 26 June 2020 after a fast-tracked consultation process. This blog post focuses on the CIGA 2020’s permanent provisions intended to protect the supplies of goods and services. The CIGA 2020 – what does it do? A quick recap.

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Practical Law Construction

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We have explored various topics as part of our intellectual property in construction series. of the RIBA Standard Professional Services Contract 2020 ). For example: The Construction Act 1996 provides that payment must be made in instalments (so the designer is not held to ransom awaiting the entire payment at the end of the contract).

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Practical Law Construction

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

For many years, the construction industry has suffered more than most with insolvencies. In 2018, it was the hardest hit economic sector, with construction insolvencies representing 17% (3,001 from a total of 17,454).

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Practical Law Construction

JUNE 15, 2021

NABERS UK Energy for Offices , a cousin of the established Australian system, officially launched in the UK in November 2020. The scheme encourages projects to commit to achieve a certain NABERS rating in post-construction performance, based on a scale of 1 (poor) to 6 (market leading) stars. In practice.

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Practical Law Construction

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

However, as many construction practitioners will know, adjudication provides an exception. Quadro entered into an oral agreement with Creagh to provide construction labour. The agreement was a construction contract for the purposes of the Construction Act 1996. Speed has its benefits but it rarely makes things simple.

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Practical Law Construction

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Compared to the restrictions we faced a couple of months ago with the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, it really does feel as if we are starting to return to some normality, and it was wonderful to see so many construction law professionals at the Society of Construction Law lunch in London last Friday. First arbitration.

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Practical Law Construction

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A question that routinely arises in practice, this scenario is perhaps more relevant now than ever, not only because of COVID-19 but also because of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (CIGA) that our colleague, Primrose Tay, blogged about. This blog will take a closer look at this question. The problem: CIGA.

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Practical Law Construction

APRIL 11, 2022

In November 2020, following the contractor’s administration, Bravejoin sent six invoices totalling £78,000 to a Mr Hay, who acted for Prosperity and its group companies. Such inactivity will, in the right case, include not making payments ( City Basements v Nordic Construction ). BraveJoin Co Ltd v Prosperity Moseley Street Ltd.

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Practical Law Construction

DECEMBER 17, 2021

If you cast you mind back to October you might recall that I wrote about CC Construction Ltd v Mincione , which concerned (among other things), the conclusiveness of a Final Statement under a JCT Design and Build Contract, 2011 Edition. In that case Coulson J decided that, on the proper construction of clause 1.9.4,

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Practical Law Construction

OCTOBER 26, 2021

International arbitration is the dispute resolution forum of choice for most international contracts, in particular in the construction and energy sectors. This is a problem for construction parties, especially as the speedy resolution of disputes and release of cash plays an important role in smooth project delivery.

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Practical Law Construction

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We often hear cases referred to as having turned on their facts and, if there was ever an example of this it would be the judgment handed down in October 2021 in G&D Brickwork Contractors Ltd v Marbank Construction Ltd. G & D Brickwork Contractors Ltd v Marbank Construction Ltd. This time, the court order said that.

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Agility PR Solutions

APRIL 30, 2020

Many countries across North America and Europe are now entering phase three (management) of the coronavirus pandemic, expected to last from mid-May through the end of the year 2020 and into the year 2021, according to new research from Forrester.

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Practical Law Construction

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In a nutshell, so far we’ve seen: Lord Clark conclude that the principles set out by Coulson J in Hutton Construction Ltd v Wilson Properties (London) Ltd (on challenging enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision and having the dispute finally resolved during the enforcement process) could also apply in Scotland.

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Practical Law Construction

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

That power is exercised, in part, with the “pay now argue later” ethos of the Construction Act 1996 in mind. This post looks at a case in which the TCC applied and expanded the case law in this area, RHP Merchants and Construction Ltd v Treforest Property Co Ltd. RHP Merchants and Construction Ltd v Treforest Property Co Ltd.

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Practical Law Construction

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The ductwork (the enabling works) was constructed by or at the employer’s instruction before the contractor started work on site. In summer 2020, another party carried out cabling work and the contractor refused to “terminate, connect and then energise” those cables.

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Practical Law Construction

OCTOBER 26, 2021

That’s in part been because there weren’t many reported adjudication enforcement judgment on BAILII over the summer, but that changed in September with publication of judgments in Downs Road Development LLP v Laxmanbhai Construction (UK) Ltd and CC Construction Ltd v Mincione , both judgments of HHJ Eyre QC.

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Practical Law Construction

MAY 11, 2021

Another obvious example is where part or all of the contract is said to comprise excluded construction operations under section 105(2) of the Construction Act 1996. Alternatively, that Watkin Jones & Son Ltd (the contractor) was estopped from denying that there was a single contract within the meaning of the Construction Act 1996.

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NewsWhip

MARCH 24, 2021

With the dovetailing of these two occurrences, 2020 was on track to be the year that brands, climate, and investment came together. Highly engaged Facebook posts on Covid donations from brands in 2020. These bricks, used for construction, are seven times stronger than concrete and also more affordable. How does she do it?

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 19, 2020

Construction, engineering and manufacturing closed down, but technology and infrastructure are booming. In the consumer sector, the entertainment, gym, hospitality, sports and travel industries in the UK shutdown on 23 March when a lockdown was applied. Since that point, the health of the business-to-business market has been mixed.

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Practical Law Construction

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Last week I had the pleasure of travelling to one of my favourite cities, Edinburgh, to help launch the report, 2022 Construction Adjudication in the United Kingdom: Tracing trends and guiding reform at the Adjudication Society’s annual conference. Adjudication continues to be a great success.

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Practical Law Construction

JULY 20, 2021

Only last week, I was part of a CIArb panel discussing 25 years of adjudication or, to be more accurate, 25 years of the Construction Act 1996. The Construction Contracts Act 2013 (CCA 2013) introduced statutory adjudication to Ireland and it has applied to construction contracts entered into since 25 July 2016.

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Practical Law Construction

MAY 24, 2022

In March 2020, the employer indicated that there had been an overpayment to the contractor. In September 2020, the employer was advised that the contractor was entitled to payment of interim applications for payment 23 (IA 23) and 24 (IA24), which were dated July and August 2020, totaling some £275,000.

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Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your tech vendors aren’t moving fast enough when you provide constructive feedback, that might be a signal to cut your losses and go back to your previous vendor. Provide feedback and see if things change. But, I wouldn’t wait too long. Again, speed matters. Give your junior members a seat at the table.

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Practical Law Construction

AUGUST 17, 2021

The dispute the contractor referred to adjudication concerned interim application for payment 14 (IA14), which was issued in February 2020 and claimed some £263,000. However, it is accepted by the [employer] that those generalised concerns are what led to the instruction of an expert in July 2020. My take-aways.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 10, 2022

The survey results would provide industry benchmarks and ignite a constructive professional conversation. If you’d like to see the results of previous surveys, you can find them on SlideShare: 2018 edition , 2019 edition , 2020 edition and 2021 edition. It feels like we blinked, and the survey is now in its fifth year.

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Landis PR

AUGUST 29, 2022

You would use lowercase and spell out titles when they’re not used with an individual’s name or in constructions that set them off from a name by commas. Job titles are generally only capitalized when they directly precede the person’s name.

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Practical Law Construction

JUNE 17, 2020

2020 is anything but normal. 758 (URDG 758) but 2020 has already brought us not one but two cases on its interpretation and applicability. URDG 758 applies to all demand guarantees (commonly performance bonds or advance payment guarantees in the construction industry) that incorporate the rules. Two cases: two similar decisions.

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Practical Law Construction

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If the Brexit deal, ongoing Covid-19 developments and updates on the Building Safety Bill and the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act isn’t enough to keep those in the construction industry on their toes, the latest guidance from HMRC is that the VAT reverse charge on construction services will commence from 1 March 2021.

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Practical Law Construction

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The dispute arose out of a JCT contract dated 17 February 2020 for a mixed-use development at Ballast Wharf, Erith, Kent. In doing so, it: Cited Hutton Construction Ltd v Wilson Properties (London) Ltd , outlining that only in very limited circumstances can substantive issues be determined at an adjudication enforcement hearing.

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Practical Law Construction

JANUARY 5, 2021

As is customary, I’m starting the year with a look at what the year may hold for construction practitioners. I also wondered what the next major event in construction law was likely to be (excluding the obvious elephant in the room ). Now, if only the pandemic would go away… Looking forward from 2020.

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Practical Law Construction

MARCH 1, 2023

It followed that there was no change of position and the claimants’ financial positions were a risk the defendants had contracted for (see Westshield Civil Engineering Ltd v Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd and the recent case of WRB (NI) Ltd v Henry Construction Projects Ltd ).

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Stern + Associates

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Named a 2020 Grist 50 Fixer , Stokes regularly provides advice to policymakers at the federal and state levels and has given testimony on clean energy and electrification to the U.S. The old model of slowly weaning off fossil fuels is not the way to go. Congress, as well as states and cities.

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Practical Law Construction

MARCH 30, 2022

To date, the Pledge has been endorsed by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) and there is an impressive list of partners who have signed up , which you can do at a gold, silver or bronze level (again details are set out on RICS’ website). ” Consequently, I suspect we will start to see the Pledge referenced more and more.

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Reputation Us

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In April 2020, Texas ice cream maker Blue Bell Creameries paid $60 million to settle a derivative shareholder suit related to a deadly 2015 listeria contamination. Construction companies—tied to word-of-mouth reputation—are particularly vulnerable to reputation problems. BAD REPUTATION EXAMPLE.

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Practical Law Construction

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As Fraser J put it: “… one might have thought that any disputes under the construction contract between Erith and JDC for the landscape works at the Olympic Park for the London 2012 Olympic Games would have been finally resolved by 2020. John Doyle Contractors Ltd v Erith Contractors Ltd. Not so in this case.”

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Reputation Us

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In April 2020, Texas ice cream maker Blue Bell Creameries paid $60 million to settle a derivative shareholder suit related to a deadly 2015 listeria contamination. Construction companies—tied to word-of-mouth reputation—are particularly vulnerable to reputation problems. BAD REPUTATION EXAMPLE.

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