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CommentWonders & blunders with Estelle Morris
Estelle Morris gives top marks to a much-improved Birmingham primary school, but thinks the designers of the Institute of Education deserve a ticking off
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A better way
I was very interested to read the framework discussion between Don Ward and Stan Hornagold (7 August, page 32)
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CommentBack to schools: 星空传媒 in a recession
Question one. How can we keep spending billions on school building while struggling with the biggest crisis in our public finances since the war?
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Sad state of affairs
With regards to the letter by KD Overment in your issue of 31 July (page 22), I have been involved in many projects for university buildings and find the attitude of the estates departments often depressing
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CommentHow to pick a winner: adjudication
Believe it or not, it can be tricky to decide whether you鈥檝e won or lost a legal case. How come? Well here鈥檚 an illustration from the world of horse breeding
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Getting the message across
I have sympathy with much of the sentiment in Tony Bingham鈥檚 article on cover pricing (28 August, page 42)
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A removeable feast: how long will schools funding last?
The education sector is one of the areas to have remained buoyant during the recession. Capital funding has increased fourfold since 1997/98, putting it at just over 拢4.1bn. Altogether, the education sector is providing 拢6bn a year for construction through public funding and indirectly through the PFI. These workloads are ...
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Back to schools: building in a recession
Question one. How can we keep spending billions on school building while struggling with the biggest crisis in our public finances since the war? Not easy, is it? Even a grade A* economics student would struggle with this one.Not many of us are putting our hands up and offering ...
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CIPS: construction still the sick man of the UK economy
There is nothing remarkable about the latest CIPS construction survey other than the comments, which are somewhat more guarded than those that accompanied last month's data.It found workload in the industry still falling on its measure which registered 47.7 in August against a no change mark of 50.0. This compares ...
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Health and safety 鈥� time to get real
Today鈥檚 blog will probably get me branded as a heretic, or worse. You see, I think that the biggest source of waste (of time and money) in the industry is the proliferation of health and safety paperwork. I also think that the touch screen test is next to useless and ...
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Why the price of an average house is not going up
Average house prices indexes may be on the rise, but the price of an average house is not.That, unless I very much mistake it, is the message from the latest Hometrack survey, which in August measured the first rise increase in house prices since July 2007.But as is well documented ...
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On the receiving end
鈥淚 would think very hard about working in Dubai again. It has done us a lot of damage.鈥� So says David Marks, the co-founder of architect Marks Barfield. Anyone reading about what happened to him after his client in the emirate quietly stopped paying its bills will find it easy ...
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GDP figures stick with estimate of 2.2% fall in Q2 construction output
No surprises in the GDP figures out today, after the savage revisions made to the previous quarter.Things aren't quite as bad as first thought. GDP was revised up gently from a drop of 0.8% in the second quarter to a drop of 0.7%. This was down to a more favourable ...
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CommentOld panels for new
Your feature on the Grosvenor Waterside buildings by Make (星空传媒 7 August) showed that the patterned aluminium walling has quality when seen up close
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CommentLook and learn: Vision vs Lancsville
Even though adjudication is well established, there are still some lessons that can be learned without trying too hard 鈥� as Vision Homes vs Lancsville makes clear
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How do I鈥� obtain a summary judgment?
In the latest entry in our guide to cutting your legal bills to the bone, Claire McNamara explains why and when and how you should apply for a summary judgment
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CommentHansom War of the words
It鈥檚 summer and everyone鈥檚 getting hot, bothered and a bit worked up, from PRs bickering over press releases to complaints about Chinese cooking and some giggling about a silly name
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Fighting the good fight
The worrying figures in your article 鈥淪mall Steps鈥� on women in industry (31 July, page 3) are no surprise to me
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As a matter of fact
John Stewart (14 August, page 32) points out a couple of alleged errors in my column of 7 August.