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CommentDamage limitation: Latent defects insurance
Latent defects insurance is a useful back-up for collateral warranties 鈥� it can ensure problems get fixed even if the contractor has gone bust
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CommentBurning questions
The pictures and news reports concerning the tragic fire in Lakanal House in Camberwell show how lives can suddenly be lost when fire breaks out. The owners and regulators must establish swiftly what happened and what went wrong
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It's a builder's life
I have been in the building trade for nearly 30 years and have lost count of how many thousands of pounds I have been swindled out of by rogue customers
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CommentBrewing up
This week, insights into the industry鈥檚 relationship with tea, as rustled up by housing ministers and supped by site monitors, but rejected by stereotype-defying labourers, who prefer dancing
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Electro-shock blues
What happens if an electricity company refuses to lay cables on a developer鈥檚 neighbour鈥檚 land without its consent? A lot of strife for the developer, that鈥檚 what
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CommentWhere are we now? How architecture is understood and consumed
The way architecture is produced, consumed and understood in the 21st century has been transformed 鈥� for better and worse 鈥� by digital technology
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CommentAll for one: The OGC's contract decision
Tony Bingham claims the Office of Government Commerce was wrong to endorse the NEC3 contract over others, but in reality this is just the standardisation he was seeking
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CommentWonders & blunders - 24 July 2009
Bill Price has happy childhood memories of discovering structural design at Coventry cathedral. But the London Research Institute? He can鈥檛 even bear to look at it
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Stop kicking Dubai
I am fed up of people gloating about Dubai going belly up. Rod Liddle鈥檚 piece in the Times this weekend said nothing new and got certain facts wrong. The piece is a prime example of the Dubai baiting that鈥檚 been done to death lately.The worst thing about the article is ...
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The spike mystery solved...well maybe
Following the poser I posted on that rather surprising spike in planning times for residential schemes, I have had a few questions and a few suggestions.The pint for the first (and sensible) response going to Alasdair Reisner, Head of Industry Affairs at the Civil Engineering Contractors Association.But by way of ...
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Rightmove data suggests a testing time for house prices
One figure in the commentary alongside the latest set of Rightmove statistics caught my eye - apparently there has been a 20% increase in sellers coming to the market compared with the previous year.Rightmove puts this down to resurgence in home movers putting their current homes on the market with ...
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Can public sector capital projects really stimulate the economy?
With all the talk not on 'if' there will be public spending cuts, but 'where' - what are the choices and pressures facing this Government, and whichever Government picks up the reigns following the next election?At the very top level, total government receipts this year are expected to be circa ...
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Turning navvies into staff
In parts, the industry still resembles the one depicted in McAlpine鈥檚 Fusiliers. Can it be turned into one that is truly professional 鈥� where workers all pay tax and where it鈥檚 no more acceptable for someone to be killed than it is in a well-run factory?One reason for thinking it ...
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Sounding out
Your recent articles on school acoustics (10 June, building.co.uk) really caught my eye
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CommentTurning navvies into staff
Will we look back at the summer of 2009 as a defining moment in construction?
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Will we never learn?
A few years ago now I recall a 星空传媒 front page very similar to that of 26 June
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It鈥檚 just not tennis
I read your articles about the dispute between the All England Lawn Tennis Club and 星空传媒 Design Partnership (BDP) with a deep sigh of frustration (26 June, page 10)
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It鈥檚 simple, really
I am writing in regard to your 鈥渢wo steps backwards鈥� letter (26 June, page 33)
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CommentDon鈥檛 listen to the media
In the recent programme Property Snakes and Ladders (Channel 4, 9 June) presenter and property developer Sarah Beeny recommends replacing the use of tested and certificated fire doors by ordinary doors painted with intumescent paint