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BIM4Regs is a government initiative that aims to incorporate Building Regulations, planning and health and safety requirements into BIM models.

The retention of a proportion of the contractor's fee is common practice in construction contracts...

A striking feature of construction dispute resolution is the frequency of disputes between contracting parties concerning the lawfulness or otherwise of set-offs, counter-claims, cross-claims, withholdings and non-payments of sums claimed as due and owing...

An interesting court decision last month focussed on whether or not a defendant couple could be considered as being 'property developers' and therefore fall under the ambit of the Defective Premises Act 1972 ("the Act")... 

The judgment in the case of Westfields Construction Ltd v Lewis  ([2013] EWHC 376) has raised questions over the utility of section 106 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 ("the Act")...

The Technology and Construction Court has recently commented on the costs the Employer is required to pay under a target cost contract...

Successful Claimants who enter into Conditional Fee Agreements (known as CFAs) from April 2013 will no longer be able to recover success fees from a losing defendant...

In a recent Court of Justice case the North Transdanubia Environmental Protection and Water Management Directorate (the “Contracting Authority”) had launched a restricted procedure for awarding a public contract for transport infrastructure works worth approximately €23m...

The case of Trebor Bassett Holdings Ltd and the Cadbury UK Partnership vs ADT Fire and Security plc (2012) EWCA Civ 1158 has raised the thorny question of implied fitness for purpose obligations in construction contracts and to be honest, rather than clarifying matters, the decision has further clouded the waters...

In a recent blog about global claims Paul Slinger dealt with the case of  Walter Lilly and Mr Mackay and commented that the case also provided a commentary on concurrency of delay events which would be dealt with in a future blog...

The hullabaloo surrounding the award of the west coast mainline franchise is a reminder that procurement can be a tricky business...

If a contracting authority enters into multiple contracts to fulfil a single requirement, the value of those contracts should, under the Public Contracts Regulations 2006, be aggregated to decide whether the purchase is above the threshold...