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CommentHow have the mighty fallen
The bold and the beautiful at Dubai鈥檚 latest luxury resort get a nasty shock, a celebrity gardener is rudely excluded and a mathematically minded company boss makes a third blunder
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CommentOur obscene failure
The response of the housebuilding industry to the downturn is to stop building and cast off the very people it will need to help it recover. We have to be far more imaginative, says David Lock
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CommentJurisdiction of the court
The CaseThe defendant invited tenders for building works to convert a hotel back into the family house that it originally was. The claimant鈥檚 tender was successful. At the time the claimant commenced work, there was no contract in place. Thereafter, as the works progressed, there were negotiations between the parties ...
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Who鈥檚 suing whom A round-up of the writs in the Technology and Construction Court
Berkeley Homes vs Danel and Alexandra Cleland-James
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Going concern
The health and safety blunder photograph on 26 September (page 35) raised concerns for us.
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for Sheppard Robson
Camden is usually a good place to spot celebrities, be it Amy Winehouse or the Mighty Boosh.
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CommentWebmaster review: Feilden Clegg Bradley website
Following Feilden Clegg Bradley鈥檚 recent Stirling prize victory, we take a look at www.fcbstudios.com to see if its website design matches its Accordia project
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CommentMy digital life: Chris Bone
The Bone Steel boss likes the instant communication and access to news and sports the web offers, but prefers networking face to face
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CommentBack to nature
Regeneration is always a positive move, however, we have to remember why some buildings built hundreds of years ago are still standing up and looking beautiful today, whereas most modern buildings turn ugly and dysfunctional after a few decades.
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CommentThe state is back
It is three years since the National Federation of Builders began highlighting the woeful service its members receive from utilities companies.
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The government of the UK is a pathetic joke and construction is particularly affected.
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Credit crunch advice: Shelter from the storm
聽In the first of a series on the legal implications of the economic downturn, we run through the options for limiting your exposure to risky projects
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Community action
In response to Robert Adam鈥檚 article 鈥淭hey鈥檙e having you on鈥� (26 September, page 36), I would like to draw Mr Adam鈥檚 attention to the Construction Emissions Community of Practice (CECoP), an inclusive group of practitioners brought together to develop a fair and transparent methodology to assess the initial impact of ...
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CommentPPC2000 upgrade: Our new three piece suite
The partnering forms known as PPC, SPC and TPC have just been upgraded to take advantage of lessons learned in the eight years since their launch. Here鈥檚 how
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Observations on Beckett's first speech as housing minister: 2
There was one intriguing bit in Margaret Beckett's speech to the Housing Market Intelligence conference yesterday that baffled me at the time and I am glad to say baffled others.She said: "On land supply, there may be ways that we can reduce the risk to new developments, by bringing forward ...
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Observations on Beckett's first speech as housing minister: 1
I spent yesterday at the Housing Market Intelligence conference in London. Naturally I found it excellent. Of course I would say that as I'm involved in it.Bias taken into account, here is just one of a many of observations from the conference.Margaret Beckett gave her first speech as the newly ...
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Bright spots in the gloom says Experian's latest construction forecast
I've just received an email from James Hastings, head of construction futures at Experian Business Strategies with the latest forecast update attached.And, not a surprise, it was gloomier than the summer forecast, which then saw the industry overall stumbling rather than plunging into recession this year and next. It is ...
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A hint of comfort in the icy housing market
If you take an optimistic view of life you may find some comfort in the latest housing market survey from the surveyors' body RICS.For pessimists there remains plenty of scope for concern.A glimmer of hope can be found in the fact that the survey found that in some regions there ...
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Could anyone have seen this coming? Well, yes actually
Normality is finally being rewritten - the world is waking up to the fact that the past decade or so was extraordinary and bred extraordinary folly.Accompanying this awakening I hear the phrase "no one could have seen this coming" so often of late. I may have used the phrase myself.So, ...