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The forms of tender, agreement, conditions and bond published by the Institution of Civil Engineers have been designed to standardise the duties of contractors, employers and engineers and to distribute fairly the risks inherent in civil engineering. This classic guide to the contracts provides and authoritative reference, and also a rich and practical introduction to the principles of construction law.
'David Howarth's Law as Engineering is a profound contribution to the law. Evoking the level of originality associated with pioneering contributions to law and economics half a century ago, Howarth's book aligns law, not on economics, but on engineering styles of thought and problem solving. His analysis sheds deep light on a 21st century world where the work of transactional and legislative lawyers, who design and build social structures and devices much as engineers do physical ones, is becoming ever more important and complex, with far-reaching implications for both legal ethics and legal education.' – Scott Boorman, Yale university, US 'This is a brilliant, highly original analysis of ...
The first book to focus on the legal aspects of climate engineering, making recommendations for future laws and governance.
This practical and concise title covers the key legal issues that C & E managers are expected to have an understanding and awareness of in their daily work. The topics include liability in contract and tort, statutory duties, remedies and collateral warranties, and the standard forms of appointment and liabilities that follow. Legislation outlined includes the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, Building Act 1984 and the Building Regulations, the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. An overview of health and safety issues is also provided from the legal perspective as well as information on professional indemnity, insurance and dispute resolution. Written by a team of experienced authors this title's straightforward style will enable non-lawyers to understand the often-complex legal and regulatory issues.
Enabling information interoperability, fostering legal knowledge usability and reuse, enhancing legal information search, in short, formalizing the complexity of legal knowledge to enhance legal knowledge management are challenging tasks, for which different solutions and lines of research have been proposed. During the last decade, research and applications based on the use of legal ontologies as a technique to represent legal knowledge has raised a very interesting debate about their capacity and limitations to represent conceptual structures in the legal domain. Making conceptual legal knowledge explicit would support the development of a web of legal knowledge, improve communication, cre...
Hudson's is recognised as a source of reliable information on the interpretation and drafting of building and civil engineering contracts. This edition covers recent developments in the law on construction contracts.
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