SearchRetention 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,…
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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…
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…
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…
Sign off Responsibility
It is common for Clients to request that their consultant obtains “sign off” of proposals for site investigation, risk assessment and in…
FPS Electronic Pile Schedule
The long nights of re-typing pile schedules could be a thing of the past as the Federation of Piling Specialists launches a…
Eurocode 7 letter
Dear Editor I have been delivering lectures on EC7 parts 1 and 2 for a while now, and I remain amazed and…
Establishing Ground Rules
Concerns over the place of Ground investigations in relation to CDM led John Banks and Mouchel Parkman to raise queries with HSE…
Specification for Piling and Embedded Retaining Walls Errata
There are errors in transcription in the first two print runs of ICE’s second edition of the Specification for Piling and Embedded…
Diggs ploughs on in quest for improved data handling
The DIGGS (Data Interchange for Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists) working group is continuing. DIGGS is an international initiative to extend the data…
New Construction Industry Scheme
On 6 April 2007 a new Construction Industry Scheme came into force. Though altered, the new CIS involves the same basic concept…
Update on the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Extract from the ACE Briefing Note – 19th August 2005 “Update on the Freedom of Information Act 2000” Introduction On 19 August…
BDA audited drilling operatives
The following is general wording suggested by BDA for all drilling operations:- Audited Land Drilling Operatives All drilling operatives (Lead Drillers and…
Drilling competence – what’s the current proof?
BDA Driller Accreditation is dead and buried. Its passing away went largely unannounced but it no longer exists. The British Drilling Association…
Electronic tenders – What has changed in the last three years?
A survey of AGS members in 2003 revealed that most respondents (74%) had tendered for work based upon information provided in an…
Equitable contribution clauses
Scenario: a homeowner decides to have an extension built at his house and employs a consultant and a contractor to carry out…
Single Point Project (Financial Loss) Insurance (SPPI)
The government is to trial a radical new form of project-wide insurance on about 10 public sector schemes. The move is part of…
Drilling into Coal Authority’s assets
The Coal Authority was established under the Coal Industry Act 1994. All in situ coal, old mineworkings, current mineworkings and all shaft…
Electronic tendering protocol for geotechnical works
All electronic information provided on an extranet shall be properly indexed and organised with all information relevant to the geotechnical works being…