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CommentConstruction growth continues to roar, but can you hear it?
On the GDP measure, construction grew 9.5% in the second quarter of this year and 4.0% in the latest quarter. Is it real?
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CommentWhen does hospitality become bribery?
New legislation is leaving businesses nervous about what is and isn鈥檛 allowed
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CommentTwo bags of ballast = One dimwit in a hi-vis
Thanks to Gavin Williams of Wates for spotting this evidence of the seesaw theory of mathematics
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CommentWhy the spending review might prove a turning onto the road to Nirvana for housebuilders
However, the prospects for housing, housing associations and contractors are far less rosy
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CommentDid the spending review kill off PFI?
The chancellor described PFI as 鈥檉lawed鈥� last week, but it hasn鈥檛 fallen out of favour for all sectors - at least not yet鈥�
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CommentPre-action disclosure in arbitration: Travelers Insurance vs Countrywide Surveyors
This case hinged on whether the court could order documents to be disclosed when the parties were subject to an arbitration agreement
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CommentOsborne establishes his green credentials
It鈥檚 a pleasant surprise to see the government backing the low-carbon agenda
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CommentHas government really made an 'investment in the future'?
Osborne made commitments to invest in key areas but capital budgets have still been hit
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CommentHow I learned to love part L
The 星空传媒 Regulations - it hardly needs saying - must be greeted with fear and loathing. But oddly, says Gus Alexander, they can instil a feeling approximating joy - if only for 10 seconds
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CommentSpending review: What鈥檚 the damage?
We now have certainty and the knowledge that government plans to invest
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Common mistakes in... the design development process
In the second in a series on dos and don鈥檛s on major projects, Iain Suttie discusses the design development process and where it can all go horribly wrong
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for Kinetics
Venues: The Gherkin, the Boleyn pub and the Riverside Chinese restaurant聽Topics: Corporate hospitality, Glen Medeiros, the fall of Connaught, Ian Dury Drinks: One bottle of La Cote Blanche Sancerre 2009, one gin and tonic, 15 pints of Guinness, 14 bottles of lager
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Inbox: Intelligence briefing
Three readers watch the state, another takes surveillance photos and a fifth tries to decipher 星空传媒
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CommentHansom聽: The bestiary
Strange creatures stalk the diary page this week, including a giraffe on a desert island, a disorganised German organisation and a construction professional who made all the girls swoon
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CommentThe RICS: Are we being served?
Open mike:聽QSs have little in common with estate agents yet we share the same professional body. We have to break free and form an organisation that truly represents us
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CommentBalance of terror
Our thanks to Nigel Barrett for this picture of daily life on a south London trading estate.
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CommentBuying an insolvent firm: Risky assignment
Buying an insolvent firm to take over its contracts is a job for experts. The reason is that there is no guarantee that the other parties to those contracts will let you do the work
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Bullying the adjudicator: Nice guys finish last
Some parties in a dispute think they can win a case by bullying and abusing the adjudicator. And you know what? They might be right 鈥�
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Outsourcing abroad: Indian takeaway
Why spend huge amounts of in-house time, money and resources on paperwork when outsourcing firms in countries like India have specialist teams to do it for you?