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This is where I compile selected data coming across my desk, that I find interesting and informative about all things property and construction. It will have an Irish focus.

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Books

 - Risk and Insurance in Construction
 - Treitel, The Law of Contract 
 - The Letter Box
 - Rolled Lead Sheet, The Complete Manual 
 - Profit from Procurement 
 - Period Houses, A Conservation Guidance Manual 
 - Surveying Buildings 
 - How Big Things Get Done 
 - Chimney Pots and Stacks 
 - Project Risk and Opportunity Management 
 - The Purchasing Chessboard 
 - War Games, The Psychology of Combat
 - 5 Dysfunctions of a Team 
 - Lean Six Sigma 
 - The Starfish and the Spider

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again, fail again, fail better." - Samual Beckett

Buildings

 - Museum Building in Trinity

Videos

 - A handy drain clearing tool - The Best Tool I Never New Existed
 - How complicated a concrete path can get, heated, stamped, sealed, exposed aggregate, etc. - Craziest driveway of all time!!
 - The Washington Bridge - This Bridge’s Bizarre Design Nearly Caused It To Collapse - Lessons in ability to maintain, inspection lessons, tendering issues with the new bridge, structural design lessons.
 - Sick Building Syndrome in an energy efficient design
 - Terrain Aeration to encourage land drainage
 - Why Berlin Built a $7BN Empty Airport

“I have not failed ten thousand times, I’ve successfully found ten thousand ways that will not work.” - Thomas Edison

Other Posts and Info

 - Govt considers making attic conversions and house extensions for elderly relatives exempt from planning; Cabinet was also updated on plans to exempt cabins from planning permission today.
 - Update to Guidance Notes 1.6 and 1.7 from the OGP regarding appointment of consultant services in public procurement. 
 - Minor amendments to current CWMF documents
 - Assignation, novation and construction contracts; Brodies
 - Equitable Estoppel: Why Keeping Your Promises Matters in Law - Kramer v Stone [2024] HCA 48
 - UK Supreme Court: Collateral Warranties are generally not Construction Contracts for the purpose of referring disputes for Adjudication
 - Existing Structures risk under a Build Contract – did the risk sit with Sisk?

 - The Noble False Widow Spider
 - Polyurethane Concrete Raising vs. Mudjacking; methods commonly used for sidewalks, driveways, patios, and other concrete surfaces needing repair and leveling?
 - Tenderbids Ltd Trading as Bastion v Electrical Waste Management Ltd [2025] - First decision of the Irish High Court to refuse to enforce an Adjudicators decision
 - Published in 2024, the New Technical Guidance Document B - Fire Safety - Volume 1 Buildings other than Dwelling Houses, with various transitional provisions in 2025
 - UK unveils world’s first graphene-enhanced road for longer-lasting streets
 - Public Procurement During Emergencies; an Expert Report for the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry, by Dr Albert Sanchez-Graells (How to Crack a Nut).
 - Some solar panel technology updates in February 2025.
 - Guidance and Tool to Support New Fee Mechanism for inflation adjustment in Public Contracts published.
 - Residential Zoned Land Tax introduced.

"Let reason always guide my ways,
with pleasure I shall end my days"

 - We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Was So Durable
 - Use of Agreed Rules of Measurement (ARM) 5 becomes mandatory in Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF) in 2025: Also note here SCSI ARM 5; and Construction Industry Federation (CIF) note here.
 - Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme where dwellings are damaged due to the use of defective concrete blocks containing excessive amounts of mica or pyrite.
 - Change to Collateral Warranties for Sub-Contractors by the Office of Government Procurement for Publicly Procured documents.
 - New Guide for use of PW-CF2 Public Works Contract for Building Works Designed by the Contractor issued by The Housing Agency. More info available here.
 - 2017 - Technical Guidance Document B- Fire Safety - Volume 2 Dwelling Houses.

Library

 - Building Information Modelling (BIM)
 - Building Pathology, Building Surveying
 - Building Services
 - Case Law
 - Design and Architecture
 - Dispute Resolution
 - Energy Sustainability
 - Fitting Out
 - General Law
 - Health and Safety
 - Multi-Unit Developments (MUD)
 - Planning and Building Control
 - Procurement
 - Property Law and Info
 - Quality Control
 - Risk
 - Teamwork and Communication

Contact


"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing" - George Bernard Shaw

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