What is acceleration? Acceleration in construction law is generally understood to mean taking measures to speed up the works in order to complete them earlier than would...
Produced in association with 4 Pump Court Use of insolvency proceedings in adjudication Insolvency proceedings will rarely be the most efficient or appropriate means of...
Produced in association with 4 Pump Court This Practice Note looks at preventing enforcement of an adjudication through a stay of execution. It considers the key...
Produced in association with 4 Pump Court This Practice Note considers the meaning of ‘dispute’ in the context of an adjudication pursuant to the Housing Grants,...
Administration is a procedure designed to give an entity breathing space, with a view to either a rescue or a restructure or to allow for a better outcome for all...
Advantages of BIM • BIM should reduce both capital and whole life costs of buildings. • Co-ordination and buildability problems can be ironed out at the design stage...
This Practice Note looks at how an agreement for lease with development obligations may require the landlord to remedy defects in the works. It also looks at whether...
There is currently no standard BIM protocol in the UK. At present, it is a matter for agreement on a project by project basis—parties may use a published...
What is BREEAM? The Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM) is a method for evaluating and certifying the environmental...
Produced in association with 4 Pump Court ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. This Practice Note provides background to and a summary of...
This Practice Note identifies the factors to consider when choosing which form of procurement to use for a construction project. It looks at factors relating to time...
Construction contracts commonly provide that, if a party wishes to bring a claim under the contract, it must follow a prescribed procedure. This often...
The nature of construction projects, the contracts agreed and the law surrounding them, means that claims are commonly made by one or more parties. This Practice Note...
A company voluntary arrangement (CVA) is a binding contractual agreement between a company and its creditors. A CVA proposal must involve one or both of two things: • an...
Produced in association with 4 Pump Court ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. This Practice Note sets out in detail how the provisions...
This Practice Note examines the situation whereby two or more competing causes of delay (independent of each other) arise on a construction project, and what...
