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Disputes Mini-Series: The Smartest Battle Is the One You Don't Fight- A Subcontractor's Guide to Walking Away
In episode 156 of Subcontractors Blueprint, host Jacob Austin wraps up his nine-part dispute series with a powerful message: knowing when not to fight is just as important as knowing how. Jacob walks construction...
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Disputes Mini-Series: Adjudication Isn't Always the Answer
Episode 155 of The Subcontractors Blueprint sees Jacob Austin close the disputes mini-series by mapping the four alternatives to adjudication: mediation, expert determination, arbitration and litigation. Adjudication...
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Disputes Mini Series: You Win on Records, Not on Being Right
Episode 154 of The Subcontractors Blueprint puts a hard number on the sentence Jacob Austin has repeated throughout the disputes mini series: you win on your records, not on being right. Two subcontractors, the same...
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Disputes Mini Series: You won the Adjudication. Enforcement Gets You Paid
Episode 153 of The Subcontractors Blueprint tackles the gap between winning an adjudication and actually being paid. Jacob Austin walks through construction adjudication enforcement- how a decision becomes a summary...
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Disputes Mini-series: Wrong Isn't A Defence
Episode 152 of The Subcontractors Blueprint flips the disputes mini series on its head with host Jacob Austin: this time the notice of adjudication lands on your desk. This episode on defending an adjudication...
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Disputes Mini Series: One Missed Notice Hands You The Full Sum
Episode 151 of The Subcontractors Blueprint sees Jacob Austin break down the payment fight every subcontractor faces: smash and grab versus true value adjudication. This instalment of the disputes mini-series shows...
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Disputes Mini Series: Whoever Moves First Has Already Won- As Long As They're Prepared
Episode 150 of The Subcontractors Blueprint sees Jacob Austin pull apart the mechanics of construction adjudication — how a dispute actually runs from the notice to a binding, enforceable decision. Continuing the...
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Disputes Mini Series: The Mistake That Hands the Other Side Your Whole Hand
Episode 149 of The Subcontractors Blueprint sees Jacob Austin tackle crystallisation — the jurisdictional gate every dispute must pass through before it reaches adjudication. Continuing the disputes mini series, Jacob...
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Disputes Mini-Series: Four Routes to Dispute Resolution
Episode 148 of The Subcontractors Blueprint opens a new mini-series on disputes, with host Jacob Austin mapping the four routes a subcontractor can take when the work is signed off but the payments have stopped. Jacob...
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Your Valuation Got Slashed - Here's How to Fight it Without Starting a War
Episode 147 of The Subcontractors Blueprint sees Jacob Austin tackle the difficult commercial conversation — the phone call or meeting where a slashed valuation is either recovered or quietly lost. Jacob Austin...
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The Art and Science of Notices: How to Serve a Notice Without Starting a War
Episode 146 of The Subcontractors Blueprint sees Jacob Austin break down one of the most commercially dangerous areas of subcontract management: serving notices- and doing it correctly under JCT and NEC subcontracts....
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Termination Hiding Inside a Variation
Episode 145 of The Subcontractors Blueprint sees Jacob Austin examine one of the most common and costly manoeuvres in UK construction — the unlawful omission variation. When a main contractor strips scope from a...
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