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CommentWebmasters glossary: Mashup
A mashup is a web resource that combines information and web services from two or more sources
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CommentHansom: A fresh start
It鈥檚 a brand new year, and we鈥檙e giving up being gloomy, sowing discord, drinking champagne and getting people鈥檚 company names wrong. Starting next week, of course
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CommentCredit where it鈥檚 due
I was pleased to see our image of East Barnet school published on 5 December, page 6. As an architect interested in project delivery, I am a keen follower of your magazine
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CommentWebmaster review: Candy & Candy website
Our webmaster enjoyed this pretty website with a chill-out soundtrack, but is worried about the search limitations of using pure Flash
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Comment星空传媒 on Flickr
We鈥檝e set up a Flickr group for the best in architectural and construction photography
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CommentBrace yourselves
2008 was horrible and all the indications are that 2009 will be even worse. Richard Steer tries to muster a little optimism for the year ahead
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Premium bonds
Having been engaged as an independent loss adjuster in the handling of claims on performance guarantee bonds in the construction industry for the past 20 years, I continue to despair at the lack of understanding of them shown by employers and their advisers.
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CommentMy digital life: Simon Barnes
What鈥檚 your favourite website? Cyclingnews.com, to keep in touch with worldwide cycle racing and the BBC iPlayer
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Back to schools: Problems with schools projects
With heavy government spending almost guaranteed, schools projects are an attractive prospect in 2009. But they come with their own particular problems
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CommentA grave omission: Adjudicators decisions
The Construction Act needs to make clear that when an adjudicator tells a party to pay out, that decision should be enforced even if counterclaims are made
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Adjudicator's jurisdiction
The CaseEuro Construction Scaffolding (鈥淓uro鈥�) was engaged by SSLB Construction Limited (鈥淪SLB鈥�) to provide scaffolding in relation to a swimming pool. Euro had provided a written quotation for scaffolding in December 2007. The parties disagreed as to what occurred next: SLLB asserted that it called Euro to confirm that it ...
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CommentThe bold and the bankers: Review of 2008
The year gone was notable for the rewarding of bravery, financial fraud and the death of an old friend
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Homes in the US sold for $1,000, will we see like here?
An article on CNN money caught my eye. It seems that homes in areas of the US hardest hit by foreclosures (repossession) are being dumped at throw away prices.At these prices you could practically buy up a neighbourhood for what it used to cost to buy a half decent home ...
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Hard cash or car crash - what's driving visitors to Rightmove?
A press release from the property website Rightmove that dropped into my inbox this morning caught my eye. Of course it was promoting its wares - that's fair enough.But what I found interesting was the interpretation Rightmove has put on the fact that record numbers of people logged on to ...
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Is Persimmon afraid of the big bad City wolves?
This fortnight sees the big housebuilders update the City on just how appalling they think 2009 will be.It can't be a fun prospect.After a dozen or so highly numerate analysts have picked holes in their powerpoint presentations, most chief execs and FD's will probably need a quick single malt before ...
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House price falls in 2008 more than double those of the 1990s
2008 will go into the record books as the year house prices fell at their fastest rate, with prices dropping over the year at more that double the pace of the previous record fall in 1992.The Nationwide data out today puts the annual rate of collapse in prices for 2008 ...
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Construction industry ends 2008 on a record low
Happy New Year, or is it? The first piece of hard data on performance of the construction industry we get and it is a "new" record low for the Purchasing Managers' Index compiled for the buyers' body CIPS.The overall PMI measure for construction in December came in at 29.3 against ...
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Luck of the Irish
On a recent visit to Northern Ireland, I was amazed by how easy it was to acquire a CSCS card there compared with mainland Britain.