Tag: The Foreman

May 16 2008

Tender points

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Internet, Legal
16 May 2008

Reading the latest construction weeklies, Construction News has a column (not yet online) from Neil Jarrett of the Collaborative Working Centre explaining how collaborative working will address the problem of bid-rigging, advocating open book cost management (to give greater visibility of real costs and make it difficult for contractors to benefit from collusion) and frameworks (to …

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May 13 2008

Software incompatability sours 2012 effort

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, People issues
13 May 2008

The office copy of Contract Journal finally arrived today and ‘The Foreman’ writes about British professionals at Mace and Laing O’Rourke involved with the 2012 Olympics developments getting disgruntled with the money being spent on their American colleagues. He then adds: Tempers have also flared about computer systems. My man said: “They are trying to …