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News Release from: Constructing Excellence | Subject: Asta Development one-day seminar
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 April 2007
40% of UK construction projects finish
late
Latest figures from industry authority, Constructing Excellence, show that 40% of UK construction projects finish later than planned.
Latest figures from industry authority, Constructing Excellence, show that 40% of UK construction projects finish later than planned More worrying still, 10% of construction projects take 50% longer to deliver than stated in the original contract
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 8 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Asta Development is hosting a one-day seminar in London on the 17th of May which will tackle this important subject and provide best practice advice from eleven industry experts.
The seminar will focus on how to avoid delay and disruption on construction projects and, where projects do overrun, how to best manage them in order to minimise the impact on the project, the client and the contractor's business.
The agenda provides a viewpoint on the direction that further legal advice may take in this field from Stuart Nash, an Associate Partner at McGrigors and member of the drafting group for the Society of Construction Law Delay and Disruption Protocol.
Senior project planners who have been involved in recent high profile cases will discuss their experiences in the witness box acting as expert and non-expert witnesses including Gary France, Group Board Director of Mace.
The four different delay analysis techniques recommended in the Society of Construction Law Delay and Disruption Protocol will be compared in terms of their relative strengths and weaknesses by Stephen Lowsley and Christopher Linnett, co-authors of a book on this topic entitled 'About Time'.
Throughout the day, presenters will draw on recent case law in this field, in particular Great Eastern Hotel Company versus John Laing Construction and Skanska Construction UK versus Egger (Barony) , which were both cases where output from project management software, Asta Powerproject, was used as evidence in court.
The seminar will be useful for anyone involved in construction project management, claims analysis and the legal process such as planners and project managers, clients, property developers, lawyers and contract administrators.
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