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Complex structures: where the exception can complicate the rules

By: Language: English Series: Contract Journal ; 376(6001) 17 November 1994, 16(1)Publication details: 1994Subject(s): Summary: Discusses the complex structure theory in relation to "Jacobs v Morton & Partners" where remedial works to foundations were ineffective and the house had to be demolished and rebuilt. J claimed that under the theory the piled raft foundation should be treated as separate from the rest of the house.

Discusses the complex structure theory in relation to "Jacobs v Morton & Partners" where remedial works to foundations were ineffective and the house had to be demolished and rebuilt. J claimed that under the theory the piled raft foundation should be treated as separate from the rest of the house.