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Storm clouds are gathering over B.C.'s construction industry as we enter 2023. For more than a decade, cheap money has helped fuel a booming sector. Although Covid and material escalation [...]

The business of construction is a roller coaster ride at the best of times. But few things challenge the industry more than the fierce cost escalation that construction is currently [...]

How can cities continue to expand and provide housing for a growing population, while limiting the negative impacts on the environment that may arise from such new construction? Recent amendments [...]

The Canadian Construction Documents Committee's (CCDC) industry standard prime contract between owners and the general contractors is a well-known document in the construction industry. Known as the CCDC 2 Stipulated [...]

A recent B.C. case has addressed the legal issues surrounding tower cranes and their infringement upon neighboring land. If followed, the case may significantly redefine the discussions between developers and [...]

Most trade contracts incorporate 'by reference' the terms and conditions of the prime contract. Are these clauses effective? Short answer: not really. The general rule of interpretation is that a [...]

An awful lot of cash sits every day in holdback accounts. That cash waits there, ever so patiently, until such time as somebody says or does the right things to [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst Alongside such treats as bloater paste and smoked mackerel paté on Jeremy Lee's acclaimed menu at Quo Vadis in Soho, there appears the mystifying proposition: 'Kickshaws £3 [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst Growing up in the West Riding of Yorkshire, I enjoyed black pudding from an early age, much preferring its flavour and even its texture to (as I [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst In the lush outskirts of Penshurst, Kent, a village so impossibly picturesque that it must surely be a regular setting for Marple-esque murders, you come across an [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirsts It's an unexpected place to find a pub, never mind a thriving one. Thixendale is an isolated hamlet of maybe two dozen houses tucked into a deep [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirsts The White Horse Inn, known to locals as Nellies, in the well-heeled East Yorkshire town of Beverley is perhaps the closest you'll get to time travel in [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst The unspoilt pub that we search for in the country, usually in vain, may be found on your doorstep - at least if your doorstep happens to [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst Middle Eastern and North African dishes are currently the height of gastronomic fashion (my colleague Stevie Parle uses his own version of them), but any newcomer who [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst Tonight, in thousands of French homes - and hundreds of English ones - a flaky cake known as a galette des rois (kings' tart) will be served. [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst If you're seeking a delicious celebration of spring, you should mark March 20 in your diary. This is the date of Nowrooz, or the Persian New Year, [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst The latest government advice that we should eat meat once a week at most has not gone down well in a nation so fond of beef that [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst 'I always try to shop locally,' said Andrew Fairlie, the 47–yearold chef–patron of his eponymous restaurant, situated in the Gleneagles Hotel, an hour north of Edinburgh. 'But [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst Nestling in a fold of the Pennines, the West Yorkshire community of Slaithwaite (pronounced Slough-it) boasts one of Britain's most unusual bakeries. What makes the Handmade Bakery [...]

Warranties form part of nearly every construction contract yet they remain poorly understood by many stakeholders in the construction industry. Despite this lack of knowledge, courts have had little hesitation [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst and Rose Prince From Auguste Escoffier to Heston Blumenthal, from Alexis Soyer to Gordon Ramsay, the professional kitchen is primarily a male domain. Yet women seem astounded [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst The annual flood of cookbooks is currently in full spate. This is one literary genre that the British public can't get enough of, but it is a [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst The 'choucroute route', which threads through Alsace in north- eastern France, is one of the world's least likely tourist assets. You might not know that Alsace produces [...]

If you are in the construction industry, you will have heard of the 'pay-when-paid' clause and its evil twin, the 'pay if paid' clause. Though widely used, these clauses remain [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst IT WOULDN'T normally be surprising to see a top chef demonstrating his way with drumsticks, but it gave me a jolt when Jamie Oliver snatched up a [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst, Christina Patterson and Boyd Tonkin If you were horrified by Martin Creed's Turner-winning light switch, or by Spencer Tunick's mass nude happening at the Saatchi gallery, then [...]

Byline: Christopher Hirst, Christina Patterson and Boyd Tonkin Valerie Martin's tale of marital misery and slave revolt on a sugar plantation in the deep South won this year's Orange Prize [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER HIRST SOMETIMES, IN these charts, biography is almost interchangeable with sport. This week's indicates that we like sex, too. Among the sporting heroes are enfant terrible John McEnroe, [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER HIRST IF GRAFFITI is the art of the hip and the youthful, then Egypt is very hip indeed. Its street graphics go back 5,000 years and are now [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER HIRST IN BOOKSHOPS and on TV screens, Britain is awash with makeover advice for houses and their interiors. Yet the tastes revealed run a narrow gamut from trad [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER HIRST Though their transgressions differed as much as their talents, Jeffrey Archer's spell in jug was surely the most celebrated case of literary incarceration in this country since [...]