TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION SOLICITORS ASSOCIATION – TECHNICAL COURSE

The Technology and Construction Solicitors' Association ("TeCSA") was established in 1990 to represent solicitors involved in litigation in the Technology and Construction Court which involves construction, engineering technology and IT disputes.

One of TeCSA's principal objectives is to encourage higher standards and greater efficiency of its members in their work.

In furtherance of that objective TeCSA now launches:

The “Technical Course”

The Technical Course marks a new venture for TeCSA. We have identified our members want to learn more about technical subjects in construction that arise in their legal vocation as practising construction lawyers. The aim is to provide members and solicitors in members' firms with the opportunity to learn more about such key subjects we have identified and they have identified to us.

The Technical Course lectures aim to be stimulating and enlightening.

The programme starts in May in the year in London, and then into the regions. Places will be limited to 50. The aim is to keep the dynamics focused on the most useful areas encountered by members construction practices.

  • Ethos: make it fun/stimulating/real life examples/use of models and pictures etc for lawyers
  • Duration of lectures: 1 hour
  • Timetable lectures monthly on a Monday at 6pm
  • Drinks and canapés after
  • Venue – TeCSA Committee firms.
  • Programme starting Monday May 16 2005
  • Cost for full 12 lecture programme £250 reflecting over 15% discount, plus half price TeCSA membership for qualifying applicants
  • £25 for members and £35 for non members
  • CDP points with Law Society

The Programme

No. / Date /
Venue[1]
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Lecturer
/ Title of Lecture on the TeCSA Construction Technology Crash Course
1 /

16 May2005

/ Fenwick Elliott LLP
Aldwych House
71-91 Aldwych
London WC2B 4HN /
Introduction to series by Simon Tolson
Alan Cavell ofQuestTechnicalServices
/ Theory of Structures I – the basics building blocks
2 / 13 June / CMS Cameron McKenna
Mitre House
160 Aldersgate Street
London EC1A 2DD / Kishan de Silva of William J Marshall / Theory of Structures II – a bridge too far?
3 /

11July

/ Shadbolt & Co
Old Change House,
128 Queen Victoria Street,
London EC4V 4HR / Mike Pepper of Jacobs Babtie / Theory of Structures III – moments, compression and tension – the headaches!
4 / 12 Sept / At Sandberg’s
Central Laboratories
5 Carpenters Place
Clapham High Street
London SW4 7TD / Neil Sandberg/Simon Clarke of Sandberg LLP / Things that go wrong with materials, snap – crackle - pop
5 / 10 Oct / Hammonds
7 Devonshire Square Cutlers Gardens London EC2M 4YH / Simon Armstrongof CladtechAssociates / Buildings envelops – roofs, curtain walling, eves and walls – things designers builders get wrong
6 / 14 Nov / Lane & Partners
15 Bloomsbury Square
London, WC1A 2LS / Alan Smith of Bickerdike Allen / Acoustics, fire, traditional and preassembled construction
7 / 16 Jan
2006 / Eversheds
Senator House
85 Queen Victoria Street
London EC4V 4JL /
Jerry Love of GCG
/ Geotechnics – how things sit on the ground or don’t!
8 / 13 Feb
2006 / Pinsent Masons
30 Aylesbury Street
London EC1R 0ER / Paul O’Leary ofJacobs Babtie / Subsidence and heave – soil mechanics and pore pressures etc
9 / 13 March
2006 / Wedlake Bell
52 Bedford Row
London WC1R 4LR /
John Wasilewski ofJacobs Babtie
/ Slope stability and earthwork support

TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION SOLICITORS ASSOCIATION – TECHNICAL COURSE

10 / 11 April
2006 / SJ Berwin
222 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8HB / Peter Fleerackers of theAssociation of Interior Specialists(AIS) / Suspended Ceilings and their failures – let them hang!
11 / 15 May
2006 / Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Nicholson Graham LLP
110 Cannon Street
London EC4N 6AR
/ John Wasilewski of Jacobs Babtie / Substructures and superstructures
12 / 12 June
2006 / Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Nicholson Graham LLP
110 Cannon Street
London EC4N 6AR
/ Max Fordhamof Max Fordham LLP / Puffing and blowing and putting it about the built environment
13 / 17 July
2006 / Fenwick Elliott LLP
Aldwych House
71-91 Aldwych
London WC2B 4HN
/
Stuart Kennedy of3 Paper Buildings
/ The valuation of variations/tolerances and allowances - from QS and counsel

Please contact Simon Tolson’s PA, Suzette Fitzgerald at Fenwick Elliott LLP by fax on 020 7421 1987 or by email on: for information.

Please make your reservation by returning the attached tear-off slip

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To:Simon Tolson

Fenwick Elliott LLP

Aldwych House

71-91 Aldwych

London

WC2B 4HN

1.Please reserve …………… places @ £250 per place for the whole course[2] for the following delegates:

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2.Please reserve ………… places @ £25.00 per place for members (£35 non members from member firms)

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[1] All central London

[2] Half price first year membership of TeCSA for qualifying applicants; please apply separately quoting details of this course booking.