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Axed Ilke Homes staff plan legal claims

Construction Enquirer

Staff hit by the collapse of Ilke Homes are planning to take legal action over claims that it failed to properly consult staff before making them redundant. More than 80 former staff have already instructed specialist employment lawyers at Aticus Law to investigate concerns around how the redundancy process was managed.

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Contracts need risk management

Construction Law

The headline news from the most recent Arcadis survey of global disputes is that the sums involved in disputes have more than doubled but the number of disputes has stayed about the same. It is poor risk management, unsuited to the increasingly sophisticated commercial world that contractors have to inhabit. Nick Barrett.

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A look into legal issues and beyond: N.C. Construction Law, Policy & News

Construction Marketing Ideas

Construction Law, Policy & News , transcends state-specific North Carolina issues, providing useful and relevant information beyond the state borders. risk management case: Jack Gibson’s twitter feed. Blogs business and sales management social media' Bouchard is a lawyer at Raleigh-based Lewis & Roberts PLLC.

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Loose lips, competition, and challenges of the long-haul

Construction Marketing Ideas

Last Thursday, as I travelled to Toronto for an industry event about the legislative changes at the root of our Ontario Construction News project, I received a call from one of my colleagues with some painful news. The post Loose lips, competition, and challenges of the long-haul appeared first on Construction Marketing Ideas.

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Construction Law: March 2024

Construction Law

News Our regular news round up includes a call from insurance companies for pilot projects to find investment models for green infrastructure; failure of another legal challenge to the Stonehenge project; and a warning that the new Building Safety Regulator is looking for a high profile prosecution to make a point.

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4 No-Brainer Workflows with Autodesk Construction Cloud Connect 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

This creates project management challenges because separate systems often require teams to transfer data manually and perform additional admin work. SharePoint makes creating, managing, and sharing files, data, news, and resources a breeze. . 2: Project Management. Let’s dig in! 1: Cloud Storage. Smartsheet .

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Gove leans on big investors behind Grenfell cladding firms

Construction Enquirer

Major shareholders Blackrock, Vanguard and Fidelity Management, as well as central bank of Norway, have received letters. “To those cladding companies who fail to do the right thing: you will face severe consequences and I will use all commercial and legal tools available to me to ensure you take responsibility.”

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