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Following the demise of Carillion, the bond market has come under a lot of pressure...

The Drone (Regulation) Bill is currently before Parliament and is intended to regulate the purchase and use of drones weighing five kilograms or more...

The Construction (Retention Deposit Schemes) Bill or ‘Aldous Bill’ has been published...

As ever, China is leading the way on all things construction following the news that China’s largest state-owned commercial banks are raising billions to fund investment for Beijing’s One Belt and One Road project...

A reminder of the balance that often needs to be struck between statute, standard form contracts and bespoke schedules of amendments...

Notices under the spotlight: pay less notices and liquidated damages notices...

The Court has confirmed that a contractor can, at least in principle, claim for and recover ‘thickened’ overheads resulting from employer culpable delay or disruption events...

Technology and Construction Court curtails “smash and grab” adjudications...

Stuart Pemble has had another article published in Estates Gazette which examines the Supreme Court's decision in Tiuta International Ltd (in liquidation) v De Villiers Surveyors Ltd...

The new procurement thresholds, which came into effect on 1 January 2018 for contracts regulated by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 and the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016, have recently been published...

Concurrent delay occurs when two or more events happen at the same time and both cause a project to be delayed...

In the first significant set of amendments for some time, FIDIC (the International Federation of Consulting Engineers) has announced that at the FIDIC Contract User’s Conference being held in London on 4-7 December 2017 they will release new forms of the following contracts...