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Article 4 Direction: What Property Owners Need to Know Before Converting

UK Construction Blog

Key Takeaways An Article 4 Direction is a legal measure that restricts permitted development rights, requiring property owners to obtain planning permission for changes that would normally be allowed without application. Ever wondered why your neighbour needed planning permission for a simple extension while you didn’t?

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The Start of Celebration: the 2023 Yearbook of Engineering Achievement

Civil + Structural Engineer

The project’s location crosses a superfund site, which made special drainage measures–such as realigning the groundwater remediation system while ensuring the treatment facility experienced no downtime. Initially, the plan was to place loose rip-rap rock on the slope to prevent material sloughing.

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$1B Airport Expansion Centerpiece of Maldives Infrastructure Buildout

ENR Construction

Current projects include the revised master plan for Hulhumalé, 8 km northeast from the capital of Male and built on 468 hectares of reclaimed land. BUCG is building increased capacity from 100,000 to 300,000 metric tons for the cargo terminal and the 37,000-sq-m fuel farm, which will boost storage capacity to 100 million liters.

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Moral rights: why should developers care?

Practical Law Construction

This is explored further in Practical Law’s practice note on moral rights but the key points to note are: If an architect owns copyright in the plans for a building, the architect has the right to be identified as the author on the building itself. A developer has acquired a site with a large sculpture in the entrance courtyard.

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CBCA Offers Potential Insight Into How Board Will Handle Claims Related to COVID-19

Constructlaw

Department of State , 1 the Board rejected a contractor’s claim for additional costs related to demobilization and remobilization of the job site in Freetown, Sierra Leone, due to an Ebola virus outbreak. 2 The contract included all necessary labor, materials, equipment, and services. In mid-March 2015, PSJV remobilized to the site.

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The Top 200 Environmental Firms for 2012: Analysis | ENR.

ENR Construction

Search our site: Infrastructure. Material Trends. Antea Group, the Dutch-based environmental services firm, managed the decommissioning and demolition of a bulk oil storage facility in South Africa for an unidentified client. contact us. industry jobs. ENR Subscriber Login ». -->. -->. ENR subscriber login » -->.

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Two Week Natural Building Intensive

Natural Building

Learn skills, techniques, and design theory to create your own beautiful, durable, energy-efficient home from local and site-harvested materials. This workshop teaches a wide variety of techniques that you can choose depending on your climate and local material availability. Camping is also available on site.