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A Cause for Concern
A look at the relationship between asbestos-containing materials and lifts, including risks to personnel Whilst writing this article during Global Asbestos Awareness Week (1-7 April 2023), I reflect upon discussions...
The Risks of Contracting With a Dormant Company
The case presented shows the importance of checking the identity and status of proposed parties when agreeing to a contract. In WRB (NI) Ltd. Henry Construction Projects Ltd. [2023], the...
Systems vs. Culture
Who wins? A hell of a lot of what we do is about implementing “systems”; we want to help make client company systems and processes slick. But there is a...
A Look at Innovation
Entrepreneurship, demand and cost are main drivers. The innovation which results in new and emerging technologies is the driving force underlying the Capitalist system, and the economic principles which drive...
Be Specific!
Validity and interpretation of pay less notices In the case of Advance JV & Ors -v- Enisca Ltd. [2022] EWHC 1152, the Technology and Construction Court (TCC) considered the validity...
Appraisals? Let’s Sack Them
Why they are not ideal and an alternative method Where is a great journalist called Lucy Kellaway, once the irreverent management columnist at the Financial Times, now full-time teacher and...
A Safety Journey
Your author reflects on his 45 years in the industry through the lens of safety. With the focus of this issue on safety and as one of a handful of...
No Time To Lose!
The implied obligation as to time for completion and the perils of failing to progress works expeditiously In the recent case of Barkby Real Estate Developments Ltd. v. Cornerstone Telecommunications...
What’s My Number?
Considerations in preparing for retirement … or not The “What’s my number?” question was a question originally posed to me some years ago by a guy called Adam Young, one...
Standards and Regulations
Your author takes a look at recent, and possibly future, changes in the U.K. In a recent interview with LIFTjournal,[1] René Hermann, chairman of the Working Group CEN TC10 WG1,...
