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  • Contract Administration And Procurement In The Singapore Construction Industry (Second Edition)

    by Pin Lim ...
    Series Book 1 - World Scientific Series On The Built Environment
    This book seeks to educate and equip aspiring professionals, industry practitioners, and students in the knowledge and practice of contract administration and procurement in the Singapore Construction Industry. It discusses the roles of and relationships between the different parties (e.g. Owner, Architect, Quantity Surveyor), tendering procedures, project delivery methods, payments, variations, ... Read more

    S$ 57.00 SGD

  • The FAC-1 Framework Alliance Contract: A Handbook

    by David Mosey ...
    This handbook explores the FAC-1 Framework Alliance Contract as a multi-party umbrella that connects the team members engaged on any project or programme of works, services or supplies. It explains the FAC-1 processes for planning, joint working, contract award, performance review, problem-solving and shared learning, and it illustrates how FAC-1 helps to attract investment, motivate innovation, ... Read more

    S$ 64.41 SGD

  • Thomas Hardy: Complete Novels

    by Thomas Hardy ...
    Here you will find the complete novels of Thomas Hardy in the chronological order of their original publication. - Desperate Remedies - Under the Greenwood Tree - A Pair of Blue Eyes - Far from the Madding Crowd - The Hand of Ethelberta - The Return of the Native - The Trumpet-Major - A Laodicean: a Story of To-day - Two on a Tower - The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid - The Mayor of ... Read more

    S$ 0.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Novels and Stories (Book Center)

    by Rudyard Kipling ...
    This book, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work ... Read more

    S$ 0.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Contractor's Guide to the FIDIC Conditions of Contract

    by Michael D. Robinson ...
    This guide will help the contractor's staff overcome some of the difficulties encountered on a typical international contract using FIDIC forms.The majority of FIDIC-based contracts use the Red Book (Conditions of Contract for Construction), so this book concentrates on the use of those particular forms. Supplementary comments are included in Appendix C for the Yellow Book (Plant & Design-Build) ... Read more

    S$ 117.99 SGD

  • Practical Guide to the NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract

    by Michael Rowlinson ...
    Launched in 1993, the NEC Engineering and Construction Contract has become one of the UK's leading standard forms of contract for major construction and civil engineering projects. The third edition, popularly known as NEC3, is a process based contract embodying project and commercial management best practice, so its basic philosophy differs from the more adversarial approach of other standard ... Read more

    S$ 145.99 SGD

  • VOB/B 2019 - Textausgabe/Text Edition

    Vergabe- und Vertragsordnung für Bauleistungen, Teil B / German Construction Contract Procedures, Part B

    Edited by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden ...
    Series series Computer Science and Engineering (German Language)
    Diese zweisprachige Ausgabe der aktuellen VOB/B erleichtert den Dialog bei der Auftragsvergabe. Das Interesse an den Inhalten der VOB ist auch im Ausland groß. In den meisten Ländern gibt es keine vergleichbare Verordnung, um Aufträge zu vergeben, solide Bauverträge abzuschließen und verlässliche bauvertragliche Abmachungen zu vereinbaren. ... Read more

    S$ 64.63 SGD

  • VOB/B 2016 - Textausgabe/Text Edition

    Vergabe- und Vertragsordnung für Bauleistungen, Teil B / German Construction Contract Procedures, Part B

    Edited by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden ...
    Series series Computer Science and Engineering (German Language)
    Diese zweisprachige Ausgabe der aktuellen VOB/B erleichtert den Dialog bei der Auftragsvergabe. Das Interesse an den Inhalten der VOB ist auch im Ausland groß. In den meisten Ländern gibt es keine vergleichbare Verordnung, um Aufträge zu vergeben, solide Bauverträge abzuschließen und verlässliche bauvertragliche Abmachungen zu vereinbaren. ... Read more

    S$ 48.17 SGD

  • Arbitration Practice in Construction Contracts

    by D.A. Stephenson ...
    Considers each stage in the course of an arbitration in detail, from the claimant's decision to seek the means of resolving a dispute to the arbitrator's award, explaining clearly and concisely what is expected of the claimant, respondent and arbitrator and when. ... Read more

    S$ 226.94 SGD

  • The Presentation and Settlement of Contractors' Claims - E2

    by Mark Hackett, Geoffrey Trickey ...
    Contractual disputes, often involving large sums of money, occur with increasing frequency in the construction industry. This book presents - in non-legal language - sound professional advice from a recognized expert in the field on the practical aspects of claims. This edition has been brought right up to date by taking into account legal decisions promulgated over the last 17 years, as well as ... Read more

    S$ 72.88 SGD

  • Using the Building Regulations: Administrative Procedures

    by Mike Billington ...
    As the Building Regulations and Approved Documents have become more and more complex, they have become increasingly unfriendly for a professional user. Compliance is only possible by understanding a wide range of supporting documentation. Alternative approaches are implied, but not described or analysed. This series of books on individual Documents goes far beyond analysis of the Regulations and ... Read more

    S$ 110.02 SGD

  • Case Studies in Post Construction Liability and Insurance

    Edited by Anthony Lavers ...
    This comparative international review of law and practice liability describes the framework in which lawyers, insurers, contractors and clients dealing with liability operate. The act of building involves risk and, in the case of damages occurring after construction, it is often hard to identify responsibility. This will be an essential reference for construction lawyers, insurers and other senior ... Read more

    S$ 123.77 SGD

  • A Practical Guide to Construction Adjudication

    by James Pickavance ...
    In the United Kingdom, adjudication is available as a right for parties to a construction contract, following the enactment of the Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. In general, within a comparatively short period of time, parties in dispute will have a decision from an adjudicator, which, except in limited circumstances, the courts will enforce. Adjudication has become the ... Read more

    S$ 118.99 SGD

  • Law for the Construction Industry

    by J.R. Lewis, Stephanie Owen ...
    Series series Chartered Institute of Building
    Law for the Construction Industry provides a comprehensive introduction to the English legal system and basic contract law for those involved in the construction industry. It covers the level 2 module on legal studies of The CIOB's Education Framework and is officially sanctioned by The CIOB as the recognised book for that module. The book assumes no previous knowledge of English law.The second ... Read more

    S$ 174.66 SGD

  • Construcción y COVID-19: retos jurídicos y áreas de oportunidad para la industria

    by Roberto Hernández García ...
    Roberto Hernández García, profesional dedicado desde el ámbito del derecho a la construcción aborda el reto de enfrentar los desafíos que ha implicado la pandemia provocada por el coronavirus COVID-19 en este ámbito a nivel global. Se trata de una obra pionera que marcará el rumbo de distintos análisis de mejora regulatoria y contractual. ... Read more

    S$ 13.25 SGD

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas' most popular work. It is also among the highest selling books of all time. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ... Read more

    S$ 0.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Risk and Insurance in Construction

    by Nael G. Bunni ...
    The new 3rd edition of Nael Bunni’s Risk and Insurance in Construction, now co-authored with Lydia Bunni, explains the need for insurance in construction and engineering projects and why it must be incorporated into the Conditions of Contract for such projects. It is unique in bringing together the background of the two topics of 'risk' and 'construction insurance', explaining the flow and the ... Read more

    S$ 295.70 SGD

  • Vos droits immobiliers en 200 cas pratiques

    by Gérard Blandin ...
    Vous supportez un trouble anormal de voisinage ? Vous entendez résilier votre bail en respectant le formalisme ? Vous souhaitez contester une décision prise dans le cadre de votre copropriété, d’une société civile immobilière ou d’une indivision ? Mécontent de la qualité des travaux, vous voulez actionner la garantie décennale ? Alors, ce livre inédit, conçu sous la forme d’un lexique et qui ... Read more

    S$ 29.26 SGD

  • Penrod

    by Newton Booth Tarkington ...
    Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914. The book follows the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States, in a similar vein to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In Penrod, Tarkington established characters who appeared in two further books, Penrod and Sam (1916) and Penrod ... Read more

    S$ 0.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nana

    by Emile Zola ...
    Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series, which was to tell "The Natural and Social History of a Family under the Second Empire." The novel was an immediate success. Le Voltaire, the French newspaper that was to publish it in installments from October 1879 on, had launched a gigantic ... Read more

    S$ 0.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complete Essays

    by Michel de Montaigne ...
    Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He ... Read more

    S$ 0.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Concept And Application Of Shariah For The Construction Industry: Shariah Compliance In Construction Contracts, Project Finance And Risk Management

    by Khairuddin Abdul Rashid, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Sharina Farihah Hasan, Masamitsu Onishi ...
    The application of Shariah compliance in business transactions continues to increase. The Asian financial crisis of 1997, global financial crisis of 2007-2008, Enron scandal and other reported ills besieging conventional business transactions have led to advocates of Shariah-compliant business transactions promoting the latter as a credible alternative. However, unlike the banking, commerce and ... Read more

    S$ 126.32 SGD

  • A Practical Guide to the NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract

    by Michael Rowlinson ...
    Launched in 1991, the New Engineering Contract (NEC) has become one of the UK's leading standard forms of contract for major construction and civil engineering projects. Currently in the third edition, popularly known as NEC 3, it is a process based construction contract embodying project management best practice, and thus the basic philosophy behind the contract is different to the more ... Read more

    S$ 127.99 SGD

  • Mediation in the Construction Industry

    An International Review

    Edited by Penny Brooker, Suzanne Wilkinson ...
    Series series CIB
    The application of construction dispute procedures has changed dramatically in the last decade. This has resulted in an increased use of Alternative Dispute Resolution in many countries, and mediation in particular. Construction is one of the major industries using mediation, in the UK and in many other countries such as the US, China, Australia and New Zealand. This expansion in mediation has ... Read more

    S$ 93.51 SGD