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Efficiency - What Do You Mean, Efficiency?

Efficiency and productivity are not defined in the JCT family of contracts.  They are elusive and difficult to measure or define...

Posted by: Philip Harris on 15 September 2009  Read more...  Comment   Comments Posted (1)

The Primrose Path - a few words about Critical Path Analysis

Critical Path Analysis calculates the longest path of planned activities to the end of the project and the earliest and latest that each activity can start and finish without making the project longer.  This process determines which activities are critical i.e. “on the longest path” and which can be delayed without making the project longer...

Posted by: Philip Harris on 21 July 2009   Read more...  Comment

The Termination Provisions of the JCT Design and Build Contract 2005 – Terminator 2 or Terminal Decline?
In the good times, contractual termination provisions did not really impinge on the consciousness of the parties. In recessionary times, they are writ large...

Posted by: Philip Harris on 23 June 2009   Read more...  Comment

Should adjudication have its own bespoke system of enforcement?
The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 came into force in May 1998.  The Act introduced the right to adjudicate under Construction Contracts as the Act defined them. The Act was silent on how to enforce adjudicators’ decisions...

Posted by: Philip Harris on 17 June 2009   Read more... Comment

Codifying Construction Law
Imagine for a moment. Suppose some futuristic “Time Team” of archaeologists stumbles upon our civilisation and finds a library of construction law dating from 2009...

Posted by: Philip Harris on 6 June 2009   Read more...  Comment