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MANAGE YOUR BUSINESS PROPERLY in 2017 ASIC’s 2016 Insolvency Report 507 identified 3 main causes of failure of companies: 46% failed because of inadequate cash-flow or high cash use. 46% failed because of poor strategic management 34% failed due to poor financial control, including lack of records Your construction business requires cash-flow. If there is […]
Continue ReadingExpert Determination and Construction Contracts
Chris Lenz is a qualified expert determiner with the Resolution Institute. Construction contracts often require disputes to be resolved by expert determination which requires expertise in the technical area and Chris is a registered professional engineer, and expertise in the law is a distinct advantage. Chris adjudicates disputes, so he is used to rational and legally correct decision-making. […]
Continue ReadingEvaluative mediation
Chris Lenz can conduct evaluative mediation (or facilitative mediation) in construction and engineering disputes in Brisbane because of his engineering and legal skills. Chris’ published paper in 2015, found on this website, explains the difference between facilitative and evaluative mediation. On 12 April 2016 a lawyers’ website article echoed the difference between facilitative and evaluative mediation. Please click here to […]
Continue ReadingRICS Webinar – ‘Some suggested tips about Estoppel’
Last week Chris presented a webinar for RICS in Brisbane for the benefit of adjudicators on the topic ‘Some suggested tips about Estoppel’. This is a complex area for participants in the construction industry as well as adjudicators. Please click here to see the webinar and go to News and Publications for the slides and […]
Continue ReadingSubcontractor’s charges in recent liquidation
We are acting for one subcontractor and have lodged its subcontractor’s charge, and just wish to emphasise to the industry that legal proceedings must be commenced within 1 month of lodging a charge, if you are claiming on contract monies – not retention monies. Please see the articles below Courier Mail articles 7 April 2016
Continue ReadingJournal Article – Is evaluative mediation the preferred model for construction law disputes?
In June Chris Lenz’s article was published in the Building and Construction Law Journal. A link to the article is below. Chris Lenz: Is evaluative mediation the preferred model for construction law disputes? (2015) 31 BCL 134.
Continue ReadingWater and Wastewater Industry
Chris Lenz is a lawyer and chartered professional engineer with a passion for water and wastewater. As an engineer, he supervised the construction of a mass concrete dam in a remote mountainous location with its delivery water pipeline in rugged terrain. He was involved in the design of a wastewater treatment plant, pump stations, and […]
Continue ReadingOur construction mediation research article is now published!
On 4 December 2014 our newsletter made reference to Chris Lenz’s research into the evaluative mediation model for Australian construction disputes, and his hope that it would be published in a peer reviewed journal. The publishers of the Building and Construction Law Journal (Thomson Reuters) kindly published the research paper this week. The article’s name and […]
Continue ReadingAlternative dispute resolution – construction mediations
Mediation for construction disputes Chris Lenz has now carried out his research about whether evaluative mediation is the preferred model in the Australian construction industry. His conclusion, based on a theoretical “fact scenario”, is that evaluative mediation is not the preferred model for construction disputes. He is seeking to have it published in a peer […]
Continue ReadingBCIPA Amendments
On 1 and 2 October 2014 Chris Lenz, a registered adjudicator, attended a compulsory two-day training course for registered adjudicators to become familiar with the amendments to the Building and Construction Industry Payments Act 2004 (“BCIPA”) which were passed in Parliament on 11 September 2014. The amended BCIPA is awaiting assent by the Governor. For […]
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