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CommentA riches to rags story
The sudden suspension on Monday in the shares of Rok - 鈥渢he nation鈥檚 local builder鈥� - would have surprised few in the City.
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CommentSo this is sharing the pain?
Everybody is asking everybody else for a discount just when they are least able to offer one. We all end up losing out and undermining the relationships we need if we are to thrive
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CommentMakes scents
I read your article 鈥淕alliford bags sewage job鈥� (2 November, building.co.uk). There is something I have been banging on about for years. I have written several letters to various bodies about this issue: simply that the largest waste water facility in Europe must produce one hell of a lot of ...
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CommentM is for Mediation, N is for Novation
Baffled by legal jargon? Don鈥檛 know ab initio novation from non-binding mediation? Luckily, we can tell you all about it. This week: M and N
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CommentHansom:聽Stage whispers
The industry finds itself this week examining vaunting ambition, coming a cropper over a letter and witnessing an epic battle - clearly it鈥檚 not only a young Michael Gove who enjoyed Shakespeare
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CommentReturn to grub street
Open mike Remember how grimy our cities were until not so long ago? Well Cabe helped transform them by homing in on design quality, so its demise should worry us all, says Roger Madelin
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CommentWhat鈥檚 going on?
The 鈥檙esurgence in construction activity鈥� is proving difficult to detect in the real world. And even if growth does take off, it鈥檒l be a long time before we feel the benefit
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Outlook: gloomy
I agree that the industry is in decline. I thought a trade would serve me for life but now with an ever-increasing amount of red tape I feel that many people like me would opt for another career
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CommentFour little letters that say 鈥榩ay up鈥�
Here鈥檚 another contract-not-in-writing-so-you-can鈥檛-go-to-adjudication-but-do-anyway-so-everyone-ends-up-in-the-High-Court case. With a twist 鈥�
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Don't speak too soon
This week鈥檚 latest survey from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (Cips) confirms recent warnings from the Scottish 星空传媒 Federation that the rise in construction output witnessed in the early part of this year was never going to last
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CommentQuentin Shears: Evolve or die!
For almost my entire career, we quantity surveyors have been told that we must evolve or die. This has never really bothered me, although I鈥檇 hate to think of the chain ending with me and Richard Steer.
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Common mistakes in ... multiparty disputes
In the third in a series on dos and don鈥檛s on major projects, Ben Mullard offers his tips on how to better your chances of victory in multiparty disputes
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Circle line
In the 1991 recession, I joined the last London Underground major project team for the Jubilee line extension.
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CommentAre contractors putting the squeeze on the supply chain?
In a disturbing trend subcontractors are being asked to reduce costs and even make upfront payments or risk being removed from main contractors鈥� supplier lists. Coercion or market reality?
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SFO means business
It is sometimes said compliance with the new Bribery Act is impractical in the construction sector (鈥淲here the buck stops鈥�, 29 October, page 34)
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CommentDouble act
Mark Hammond says: 鈥淭hese men in Dubrovnik were making quite a good job of pointing the ridge tiles, but it makes you shudder to think how they got up there, or down again!鈥�
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CommentPassivhaus diaries: Life at Denby Dale
Living in the Denby Dale Passivhaus still feels like something of a physics lesson to owners Geoff and Kate Tunstall (but in a good way). Here they give an update on how they have found their first summer and autumn in the house and their thoughts as they head into ...
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CommentIf the City punters are right brace for a double-digit fall in house prices
Traders are betting on a 6% fall in house prices next year
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CommentCala Homes vs Eric Pickles: Who will be the ultimate winner?
The court may have ruled that scrapping regional housing targets was illegal, but that won鈥檛 change the government鈥檚 localism agenda