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During recent years our industry has made great progress in providing rig guarding for piling and drilling rigs. Responding to the well…
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Engineering, Geology, Geotechnics
University of Portsmouth’s Industrial Alliance in Engineering Geology & Geotechnics starts to show results The University of Portsmouth is the only institution…
The Contractor ’s Problem
You arrive on site with detailed plans of the buried services. The electricity and telecommunications can be readily confirmed with your Cable…
The Consultant’s Problem
There is still a perception within the industry, and sadly, this includes some CDM-Co-ordinators (CDM-C), that it is not necessary to appoint…
Insurance Claim Refusals
Tim White of Marquis & Lord, reports on the findings of recent consultations with insurance claims professionals. A recent straw poll of…
Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010
DEFRA announced that the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 came into force on April 6th 2010. Water discharge consenting, groundwater…
CSCS Cards – Explained!
There are four types of red cards which are new or recent entrants to the construction industry for experienced workers whose occupation…
The Importance of Keeping Good Written Records
Here at Griffiths and Armour, we are acutely aware that being able to produce clear evidence of the advice given to a…
Retention of documents – how long is long enough?
Introduction How long is a piece of string? Tricky. Twice the length from one end to the middle, you say? Well, yes,…
Builders Profile
Is Builders Profile the answer to Pre-Qualification Questionnaires? When Members of the National Specialist Contractors Council (NSCC) complained about the number and…
The Big Question
Q&A: Liabilities of The Qualified Person Arising from Definition of Waste: Development Industry Code of Practice Introduction The Definition of Waste: Development…
Markets for Professional Indemnity insurance – the not so ‘super market’
The aim of this paper is to summarise the workings of the UK Professional Indemnity insurance market and the hard/soft cycle that…
Geophysics and the Search for Homer’s Ithaca
An extract from the paper presented at SAGEEP 2009 Greg Hodges, Fugro Airborne Surveys, Mississauga, CA David Kilcoyne, Fugro-Aperio, Wallingford, U.K. Rod…
First Aid in the Workplace – Changes to Regulations
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), carried out an evaluation of first aid in the workplace and found that ‘although first aid…
Successful Tender
Question- Can a successful tenderer for a publicly procured project negotiate the terms of the contract post acceptance, but prior to contract…
Why AGS4?
The AGS data format is being upgraded to version 4, this note explains the thinking behind the changes, gives the reasons for…
EN 1990 Alteration
EN 1990 Altered to Avoid UK Liability Problems The head code, EN 1990, has been changed to make sure that civil and…
Weighing up the Risk
Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) A new framework for assessing risks to ecological systems from contaminants in soils was published by the Environment…
Understanding Bandings
This article has been superseded by Safety Guidance – Classification of Potentially Contaminated Sites for Intrusive Investigation Activities which was published in March…
Payment and Protection
Introduction In the present economic climate every business is feeling the pressure and it has never been more important to take all…
Water Testing Cost Amendments
DEFRA’s Water Classification Directions to the Environment Agency Could water testing costs (either as part of due diligence work or operationally in…