All Comment articles – Page 305
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A quick guide to construction insurance
A quick guide to the different types of insurance that may be required or maintained in connection with a construction and engineering project
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Flickr pic: ANMA's ARTEM University Hub in France
The first phase of architect ANMA’s ARTEM University Hub in Nancy, France. The photo is by Alexander Prevot
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Not perfect but good enough for these austere times
Baseline school designs: some may think we’re selling our children short but we need to look at a system that can deliver in tough times
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Save your scorn
Since the recession simple maths dictated we need to deliver more for less, but as with any equation, there is a tipping point
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Public money for shovel-ready projects
Central and local government need to focus on getting funded projects moving as quickly as possible through procurement.
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Hansom: Visions and revisions
This week, the ONS struggles with statistical correctness, Crispin Odey plans to put some birds up in a stately home, and the first post-Olympic neighbourhood is ready, ahead of time and under budget
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Litigation: Winning isn’t everything
The successful party in litigation used to nearly always get their costs paid by the loser. How things have changed…
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My digital life ... Noble Francis
The CPA economics director and Ðǿմ«Ã½ columnist on why he prefers PCs to Mac, listening to Roxette, and trying to remember how he got by before iPads
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Despair at education sector
The government is failing to cut red-tape, bureaucracy and money
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Fragmented construction industry
If we just look after our own interests we’ll never get the government to listen to us
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Once more unto the breach
When does a delay to a project become sufficiently serious to incur a repudiatory breach, allowing the contract to be terminated?
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Housing: Death of section 106?
The government’s housing and growth initiative may have hammered another nail in the coffin of the traditional means of paying for affordable housing
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Garden Cities: Learning from the regions
Politicians discussing garden suburbs and cities at next week’s Conservative conference would do well to look further than London and Hertfordshire
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Wonders & blunders with Gareth Moores
Lytag’s Gareth Moores thinks Salisbury’s Bourne Hill Offices are a perfect blend of old and new, but Oregon’s Portland Ðǿմ«Ã½ is a lumbering pseudo-historical eyesore
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Why Ed Balls calling to spend 4G windfall on homes could be worth far more than £3bn
The real value in Balls’ statement is that he has potentially set in train a bidding war
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ONS correction to new orders data adds more black eyeliner to a Gothic horror show
A statistical error shows that in fact contractors are winning work at the slowest rate since the 1980s
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Infrastructure investment
The CBI’s latest survey restates the business case for continued investment in infrastructure, but progress is still worryingly slow
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Indemnity: Rust revisited
A problematic case on the interpretation of an indemnity has so far exercised the minds of eight of our most senior judges