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111,000 jobs lost to construction... and that is just the start
The latest employment figures make grim reading for the construction industry with the number of workforce jobs plunging by 61,000 in the second quarter of this year.This means that 111,000 jobs have been lost to the industry since they peaked in the autumn last year.In fairness the drop in workforce ...
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Is this deflation I see before me? Why prices are rising faster than the inflation rate
I am not sure about you, but I sometimes have to go to the back numbers to make sense of the statistics that get thrown at me.I have been for some months a bit curious as to why the brightest brains (well some seriously well paid experts) among the UK ...
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House prices on the increase, but so too are the questions marks over the housing market
The big news is that for the first time in two years more surveyors in Britain said prices rose than said they fell, according to the latest RICS housing market survey.The big question is whether this is the start of a continuous and sustained recovery in the housing market or ...
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CommentJCT for major projects: I Love you just the way you are
The clear, efficient and comprehensive JCT Major Project Construction Contract is about as good a form as you鈥檒l find. But don鈥檛 go trying to change it 鈥�
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Thank you, Sir Stuart Lipton
Cast your mind back 10 years, if you can. Compulsory competitive tendering was a way of life in the public sector. Design-and-build hospitals resembled a lot of site cabins bolted together; developers threw up office blocks that had the charm and civic presence of a shopping precinct. The role of ...
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The battle of Little Britain: on board with Sheppard Robson
My second Little Britain was even more memorable than my first. As someone who has always claimed never to get seasick, I have since realised you don't know the meaning of the word until you've been stuck down in the pit of a racing boat for 20 minutes being thrown ...
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Meanwhile, ITEM Club says recent house price rise is a false dawn
Today the Item Club released a special report on house prices that suggests a further fall in the first half of next year.It sees the recent rise as a false dawn and says it will be another five years before prices get close to the peak they reached in 2007.Like ...
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"House price falls are over" say futures traders
House price falls are over. That is the declaration made over the past two months by the futures market after two years of grim expectations.As recently as last December you could forward buy a notional average house three years hence for 拢106,153 on the futures market. That price is set ...
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Jibbing and tacking with Captain Jack
Standing on the Cowes quayside at 7.30 am, trying to force a bacon sandwich down into a queasy stomach less than six hours after you had your last rum and coke, is, I am learning, a quintessential Little Britain experience. As is not knowing whether the gentle rocking motion you're ...
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Parry and riposte
I don鈥檛 know if Graham de Roy (7 August, page 29) is spoiling for a fight, but he seems to have taken a highly selective view of my article (24 July, page 48) on latent defects insurance (LDI)
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The other offsetting
I must disagree with Rachel Barnes鈥� piece (10 July, page 49) about architect鈥揷lient agreement forms
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CommentSize does matter
After helpful research by Cabe found that new homes were too small, we may finally be able to re-address the poor design that has been carried out across the UK 鈥� and yes, by all of us
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Weighty matter
JT Emanuel (28 August, page 28) has only part of the story when he suggests the consultation over parts L and F of the 星空传媒 Regulations is 800 pages
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CommentThank you, Sir Stuart Lipton
Lipton won the intellectual argument that good design wasn鈥檛 a luxury limited to an arts project backed by a patron with more money than sense
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CommentMany happy returns?
Cabe is 10, but it鈥檚 not all party hats and streamers. Emily Wright reports on the high-profile successes and failures of its first decade, and asks four industry figures whether it deserves a second
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CommentHansom: The high life
Despite the downturn, construction is enjoying the lifestyle of a Scottish beauty queen, from getting up late for meetings to noshing down salmon mousse and paddling in a lake of brandy
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Not the wreckers: Sticking up for value engineering
Gus Alexander recently made a bitter complaint about value engineers spoiling his design. Well, fair enough, but that鈥檚 not what value engineering is for
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Getting there: Revision to JCT contracts
The latest revision to the JCT contracts is a step in the right direction, but doesn鈥檛 go far enough to enforce the OGC鈥檚 Achieving Excellence in Construction aims