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A glimpse of the future as 56% of surveyors see workload fall
Construction workload is expected to continue to collapse at a rapid pace according to the latest industry survey by the surveyors' body RICS.Surveyors experienced declines in workload across all regions and all sectors illustrating the broad spread of this recession. Across the board, more than half of surveyors saw less ...
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Latest GDP figures confirm plunging construction workload
The update on the preliminary GDP figures for the UK's economic growth confirm construction activity was down in the first quarter by 8.6% compared with a year earlier. This puts industry workload on a level with that last seen in the summer of 2003.The figures have remained unchanged since the ...
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Homes sales continued to perk up in April, but it's too early to call it a recovery
The official figures for property transactions will make comforting reading in April for those selling homes.They seem consistent with the prevailing view that the housing market, in terms of sales and not prices, is showing some signs of bouncing back up from the floor reached at the turn of the ...
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Roger that
I have for many years felt that Roger Knowles, chairman of Baqus, was the voice of reason and practicability in the building industry so I was delighted to read his letter in Inbox (15 May, page 32)
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CommentIn the pink
There鈥檚 a healthy glow over construction this week, from red-flag-waving anti-monarchists, creatively priced vino and the coy blushes of Chinese officials. Oh, and some football team or other
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CommentThe meme machine: What do you think is normal?
Disputes arise when parties feel that things have strayed too far from the norm. They find that terribly upsetting. Why? Well, there鈥檚 a theory that explains that...
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But is it legal?
I was interested to read the published response from Peter Whitbread in your 8 May edition regarding 鈥淟ip service won鈥檛 do: discrimination in construction鈥� (24 April, page 52)
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CommentIt's up to us
Your editorial (1 May, page 3) says 鈥渢he Exchequer is applying brakes by way of efficiency savings鈥�. About time, I say!
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CommentHealing the healthy
In the second of his series on the deadly sins of architecture, Robert Adam tackles conceit, which takes the bizarre form of designers pretending be members of the medical profession
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Get your facts straight
I read with interest your article asserting that the government will miss its carbon reduction targets of 12.5% by 2010/11 (1 May, page 10)
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CommentWe should listen to the cynics
We鈥檝e heard a lot in the past week or so about people who follow the letter of the rules but not their spirit. Rather too much, in fact
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Talk first, procure later: Competitive dialogue
Engaged on a major project? Here鈥檚 a message from the Office of Government Commerce: engage with business and identify your needs before embarking on procurement
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CommentContractors vs consultants: Rising claims
A contractor on a design-and-build job that gets duff advice and loses money may be tempted to sue whoever gave it that advice. Well, that鈥檚 easier said than done
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint... for Mace graduates
At what moment do you realise that you鈥檙e losing your youth?
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CommentDesign and builders
So Cabe is going to vet public projects to make sure they don鈥檛 look completely awful. Well, that鈥檚 a good thing of course, but we should ask ourselves why it鈥檚 become necessary
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Not just any old wood
Regarding our timber study for the Wood Window Alliance (24 April, page 69), it is important to realise that the negative value for embodied carbon was based on the knowledge that the timber would be sustainably sourced from a well-managed forest, and that in the future, most of it would ...
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All publicity is good
The essence of 星空传媒鈥檚 editorial in the 9 May edition (page 3) is that the Prince of Wales鈥� intervention into the quality of design of the built environment, is a good thing. Up to a point
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Latest official figures reveal extent of the house building challenge
The release of the first quarter 2009 house building figures for England will most likely provide a bit of everything for commentators, pundits and truth spinners.Chances are there are reasons to be more cheerful and reasons to be more depressed than you were after reading them.But for my money what ...
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Figures show more Eastern Europeans are giving up on the UK
The post credit crunch squeeze on the UK economy does appear to be encouraging more Eastern Europeans to call it a day and return home according to the latest information produced by the official statisticians at ONS.This does fit with the anecdotal evidence which suggests that the weak pound and ...