Day: October 18, 2016

Never shove your contracts in a drawer

Ever since the first standard form contracts were published, there has been a plague on the construction and engineering industries… a plague of contracts. The first construction standard form appeared in 1879 and the first engineering contract in 1903. Fast forward 100 years and we have industries which are unrecognisable

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Lessons from failure: have a contract strategy

On a simple house refurbishment project in Putney, London, Mr & Mrs West ended up with an extended house with no proper waterproofing, serious defects in the plumbing and all the newly installed M&E services needing replacing. Disaster! When planning and creating their contracts that the clients were failed by

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