In December 2008 we summarised the Bill which proposed various amendments to the Construction Act. After some last minute ‘tweaks’ in the House of Commons, the Bill has now passed into legislation, receiving Royal Assent on 12 November 2009.

On 25 March 2010, the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010 ("the Act") received Royal Assent and became law in England and Wales.

In delivering a construction project, a contractor or consultant must also comply with the Saudi Building Code.

This article, by Ian Masser and Ben Spannuth, considers the key points of the judgment and its potential impact on construction professionals (which has recently been the subject of much comment...

At the International Contract Users Conference held in London from 6 to 7 December 2016, FIDIC unveiled its proposed revisions to the 1999 Rainbow Suite of standard form contracts ...

The DIAC-DIFC DRA Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), and the new DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Rules come into force.

Building Information Modelling (BIM), we are told, has arrived in the construction industry and been widely adopted for complex projects. It is not tomorrow’s vision but today’s reality, and in a few years it will be standard.

Enforcement of adjudication decisions – or, more precisely, attempts to resist enforcement – continued to occupy much of the time of the Technology and Construction Court.

We start our review of 2009 with two high-level decisions concerning the interpretation of contracts, highlighting the growing flexibility of at least some judges in this respect.

The new CDM regulations come into force on 6 April 2007