Tag: Building Safety Act
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Is the Building Safety Act slowing down Labour’s housing targets?
However, while rightly seeking to ensure parties take responsibility for their roles in construction projects, the industry is facing frustrations with the resourcing and capacity of the Building Safety Regulator (BSR), which is inevitably slowing down higher-risk building (HRB) projects and will have a knock-on effect for hitting government housing targets if not resolved quickly.…
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Is the Building Safety Act slowing the pace of cladding remediation?
Meanwhile, Vista Tower in Stevenage has so far been the subject of two separate FTT decisions. The first, DLUHC v Grey GR Limited Partnership granted the government’s application for a remediation order against Grey, the railway workers’ pension fund. The second, Grey GR Limited Partnership v Edgewater (Stevenage) Limited and others, determined Grey’s application for…
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The adjudication juggernaut rolls on: BDW Trading v Ardmore Construction
Adjudication was originally intended as a fast-track, rough and ready process to ensure cashflow through the contractual chain. It has metamorphosed into an elastic procedure which can and will deal with retrospective, multi-million-pound technical disputes, stretching back 30 years, and arising elsewhere than under the particular contract, where evidence might be lacking and witness evidence…