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		<title>Opening and Closing remarks of Construction Lifecycle Risk Management Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Construction Lifecycle Risk Management Conference Date: 17th &#38; 18th April 2011 Venue: Sheraton Abu Dhabi Hotel &#38; Resort, Abu Dhabi, UAE Welcome and Opening Remarks by the Chairperson, Samer H Skaik Ladies and Gentlemen, Good morning. I am delighted to join our speakers in welcoming you all and open this Conference on “Construction lifecycle Risk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head Office Overhead &amp; Profit Claims – Why Hudson’s Formulae Failed Most of the Time?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a contractor and having a delayed project (presumably not solely caused by you!), Head Office Overheads Contributions may be in your list for Loss and Expense claims. It is common for contractor to adopt the simplest and so called ‘accepted’ method of calculating such expenses hoping the other side will accept it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We do not negotiate! Or do we?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Conrad Egbert With the market having fallen 40% until now, many clients, contractors and suppliers across the region have begun to renegotiate contracts. CW talks to some of the top experts in the industry to find out what they think about the trend. Last week, CW discovered that City of Arabia &#8211; the Ilyas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build for the end user – not for the developer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Alan Millin It&#8217;s not so long ago that buyers clamoured for properties in certain locations. Rumours abound of heated exchanges in both Dubai and Abu Dhabi as buyers tried to book properties off-plan.Times have changed though. Buyers are looking more at what they are going to get for their money, and rightly so. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Negotiating With a Client&#8217;s Representative Requires Different Tactics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Strogoff, AIA Effective negotiating requires that parties understand each other&#8217;s goals, aspirations and underlying concerns. Some of these can be ascertained indirectly: clients can gain a preliminary understanding of what&#8217;s important to design professionals through reading their statements of qualifications and other marketing collateral; design professionals can gain insight into a client&#8217;s perspective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven strategies to beat the recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One may curse, whine, pray or plead but there still seems to be no escape from the after effects of the financial downturn. But before this recession monster starts gulping down our hard-earned savings, let’s attack it using some time-tested strategies and tools. The following habits combined with your indomitable spirit will ensure that you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Negotiate, not bully</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Conrad Egbert Last week, following extensive chats with developers, contractors and suppliers, it was clear that most of the industry is renegotiating contracts to better suit the current market conditions. Now, even though this may seem like the best option (and it probably is) to kick-start the construction industry, a couple of things that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key points while entering into a joint venture in the Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by James Bremen The use of joint ventures or consortiums are attractive because they allow contractors, consultants and financiers to team up and offer owners a single interface for all needs of a project. Owners are increasingly requiring that consortiums be formed to provide a single point responsibility and to ensure bidders have the ability [...]]]></description>
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