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CommentBeware Greeks bearing gifts
One lesson the Connaught story tells us is that clients are too ready to accept prices that aren鈥檛 sustainable
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CommentYou鈥檝e been warned: the dangers of advising traditional procurement
Traditional procurement methods are so needlessly wasteful that a consultant or solicitor who advises a client to adopt them may be guilty of negligence
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CommentKicking out the jams: Academies framework
If contractors were peeved at not being on the academies framework before, they鈥檒l be shedding some tears after the latest piece of news鈥�
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Getting to know all about you: ICE vs NEC3
Some contractors are upset that their old friend ICE conditions of contract has been dumped. But once they get to know the NEC, they鈥檒l have their new buddy on speed dial
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CommentIgnore CDM regs at your peril
Complying with these health and safety rules is costly, but there are practical solutions and the alternative is just not worth it
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CommentWe may have 53,000 more jobs but it's not all good news
The problem is that the jobs data makes a mockery of the governtment's output statistics
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CommentWhat can be saved from Connaught's collapse?
Options for salvaging contracts with the failed social housing firm
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CommentWhat makes a good lawyer?
The Legal 500 came out this month but how much can such directories really tell us about construction law firms
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CommentInfrastructure is 40% bigger than we thought
The latest ONS figures are worrying as they mean we've measured output and got it wrong in a big way
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CommentThe silent QSs
Are 星空传媒 readers aware of the implications of the takeover of Davis Langdon by Aecom?
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The worst-laid plans
Your excellent Brickonomics blog entry (23 February, building.co.uk) highlights the sheer naivity of those putting forward this New Utopia planning system.
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CommentHansom: Move over Sherlock
星空传媒鈥檚 supersleuth uncovers the truth behind celebrity interviews, appeals for help in identifying a missing person, tails the RICS/QS row and meets a double murderer
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Turning the heat on fire report
In your article 鈥淚nsurers call for urgent probe into timber-frame fire risk鈥� (27 August, page 9) you state that the UK Timber Frame Association dismissed the findings of the government鈥檚 report on fire safety
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CommentFreedom fighter: Toby Young interview
Author Toby Young is one of the first parents to try to found a free school - partly, it seems, in an effort to alienate as many architects as possible. Emily Wright asked him why
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CommentWe've failed economics
You will no doubt recall the talk from David Cameron during the election about the big society that was to replace big government
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Don't look up
Rebecca Shorter is a member of the construction team at solicitor Cripps Harries Hall, who are 鈥渁ll big fans鈥� of 星空传媒鈥檚 health and safety blunders.
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CommentMy digital life:聽Richard Nelson
Top picks from Watkins Gray Internationals business development director
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Prompt payment: The other credit crunch
The government is making it a rule that all firms on public sector contracts be paid promptly, all the way down the supply chain. Which will come as a bit of a shock to some
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Count the costs
I read with interest the article by Mr Justice Akenhead (3 September, page 47)
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CommentStorytime: Wilfred and the chisel
At Bristol鈥檚 Kingsdown Council school in 1946, I joined Mr Bowell鈥檚 woodwork class. He was a quietly-spoken man in a carpenter鈥檚 work coat