by Administrator | Mar 5, 2021 | Resources
I thought it might be helpful if I outlined the benefits of using a standard Method. The following isn’t just my own personal opinion, it is what is taught under the Association for Project Management’s (APM) syllabus for their Project Management...
by Administrator | Nov 29, 2019 | Knowledge, Resources
From Designing Buildings Wiki 28th Nov 2019 An obligation for parties to act in ‘good faith’ is not generally implied in commercial contracts. However, both standard form construction contracts and bespoke contracts commonly include clauses that require the parties...
by Administrator | Jan 26, 2018 | Knowledge, Resources
I spent the first 15 years or so of my life in HA Development learning on the job. Then I started reading and discovered how much faster one can learn, and how very slow on-the-job learning tends to be. I quite often mention this on training courses. So I’m...
by Administrator | Jun 1, 2017 | Resources
What is the difference between signing up to a “reasonable endeavours” obligation on the contract, and promising to make “best endeavours”? This article from Estates Gazette makes it clear. To summarise, promising to use “reasonable endeavours” to do something means...
by Administrator | Sep 8, 2016 | Resources
This interesting piece of research from civet us suggests that the common conventional wisdom that the housing shortage is primarily caused by the planning system, may well be wrong. It highlights the increasing discrepancy between the number of homes permissioned,...
by Administrator | Dec 9, 2015 | Resources
The National Housing Federation’s London Development Conference was, as usual, thought provoking. We all know that the prospects for affordable housing – I use the term correctly, not in the Newspeak manner of recent years – is bleak, especially for affordable rented...