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It is interesting to note that FIDIC is planning to launch the updated version of its Short Form (Green Book) contract at the end of this year / start of next year...

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (“FSO”) regulates fire-safety in non-domestic premises, including workplaces and the non-domestic parts of blocks of flats...

The London Court of International Arbitration (“LCIA”) has published its new 2020 LCIA Arbitration Rules which will apply to any LCIA Arbitration commenced after 1 October 2020 (unless the parties have agreed otherwise)...

In the recent case of Rochford Construction v Kilhan Construction ([2020] EWHC 941 (TCC)), the Technology and Construction Court has said...

As part of the response to the Grenfell tragedy, the Government has recently introduced the Building Safety Bill...

The Business and Planning Act 2020 (BPA 2020) received Royal Assent on 22 July 2020...

As noted in the one of our early blogs in our MF/1 series, MF/1 contains a number of model forms as appendices and these include a parent company guarantee (PCG) and a bond – or actually bonds, in the form of both a performance bond and a demand bond...

In May, Samuel Lindsay blogged on Version 4 of the Site Operating Procedures issued by the Construction Leadership Council. Now Site-Operating-Procedures-Version-5 has been issued...

Modular construction is an area of growing importance in many different sectors from housing to health...

In March I blogged about the CITB suspending its levy for 3 months...

The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020  ("the Act") which came into force on 26 June 2020 has far reaching consequences for a number of industries...

This blog looks at clause 6 of MF/1 which deals with Changes in Cost...