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There is a general tenet of English law that legislation is not to have retrospective effect. Once plans and contracts are in place, one would not expect a rule change that would alter fundamentally the way in which the contract operates.

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Your presumably unwitting, but nevertheless fundamentally irreverent, article Good news! Jesus joins ranks of incorporated engineers (11/25 December 1997) revealed the gross ignorance of all the parties to its content, both of Scripture generally and of the unique Person of the Lord Jesus Christ particularly. Keith Elliott, the University of…

THE JUBILEE Line Extension's state of the art signalling system may not be ready for the millennium, project director Hugh Doherty confirmed this week.

THE GOVERNMENT'S planned Environmental Task Force is to get £600M of Windfall Tax funding over the next four years, Employment Minister Andrew Smith pledged this week.

COSTAIN WILL open a fourth workface on the troubled Avonmouth bridge later this month, after the Highways Agency authorised the expenditure of £800,000 on an extra set of temporary props.

INFRASTRUCTURE WORK will decline for the second year running, largely as a result of the delays in letting civils contracts for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Construction Forecasting & Research claimed this week.

SECOND TRANCHE of tunnelling work on Hong Kong's troubled strategic sewage disposal scheme has been awarded to a joint venture between Kvarner Cementation and its Hong Kong subsidiary Gammon Construction.

POLLUTED WATER runoff from construction sites could be treated much more quickly and cheaply in future, thanks to a £1M research programme completed this month by chemists at Sheffield University.

As contractors and their construction sites battle to regain full productivity after the long seasonal break, Christmas 1998 seems a long way distant. But not so for engineers erecting a mammoth steel frame on the outskirts of Leeds, where the number of posting days to Christmas is a crucial factor…