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CommentPayback time
The government鈥檚 housing rescue package is too little too late, says Michael Gove, and it has left the public to pick up the tab for past mistakes
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CommentHow much is a life worth?
Companies convicted under the Corporate Manslaughter Act face fines of up to 10% of turnover, but this doesn鈥檛 necessarily amount to much, says Jan Burgess
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CommentPitt is miscast in his latest
Forget Seven Years in Tibet, if Brad Pitt is serious about a career in architecture he鈥檇 better start thinking about seven years in the classroom, says Tarek Merlin
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CommentThey鈥檝e finally got it
The government is certainly making political capital out of its successes, with ministers opening new schools up and down the country
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Too fast, too furious
I read with interest the article on the plans by John Lewis Partnership and Waitrose to double their floor space in 10 years and their search for new firms to work with.
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CommentThe cycle of life
Just to say how much I enjoyed your article on Herne Hill (15 August, page 36).
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Construction matters
The House of Commons thinks that Construction Matters. Of course it does, and of the 55 conclusions and recommendations in its report, the crucial item is number 20.
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CommentMy digital life - Chris Self
The schools specialist may prefer dinner parties to Facebook and his green leather bookmark to weblinks, but he still marvels at kids鈥� capacity to use the latest technology
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for The Edukators
Chosen watering hole: Five & Lime, Guildford聽Ambience: Bohemian student cocktail bar聽Topics: BSF, bonding and the blues. Drinks drunk: 4 pints of San Miguel lager, 2 pints San Miguel shandy, 2 glasses of white wine
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CommentCJP Builders vs William Verry: Some verry fine distinctions
This case highlights the importance of adjudicators giving parties the chance to be heard. But in other cases they are right to disregard submissions
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CommentWebmaster review: Ian Ritchie Architects website
Architect Ian Ritchie grabbed the headlines by pulling out of the design team for the Olympic village, but can ianritchiearchitects.co.uk make a big impression too?
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Take a bow, Andrea
As an archer I had to contact you to correct your misinterpretation of the picture of the lady archers at the 1908 Olympic Games.
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CommentLock-up agreements
The CaseThis was a case involving the Middlesborough Dock, now renamed Middlehaven. Chilli Developments Ltd (鈥淐hilli鈥�) expressed an interest in undertaking a development on the land. There were negotiations with English Partnerships (鈥淓nglish鈥�) and Tees Valley Regeneration Ltd (鈥淭ees鈥�) for a development agreement to enable Chilli to build on part ...
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Construction Act: Pay up or else
Today is the last day to respond to the draft bill amending the Construction Act. The bill tries to clarify payment procedures 鈥� but will it lead to a battle of notices?
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CommentCEDR adjudicators: Fast relief for aches and pain
Here鈥檚 a new cure for those heated disputes: wait until adjudication comes to an end, don鈥檛 tell the parties who鈥檚 won what, then ask if they fancy a bit of mediation. Hey, it works
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Time to price in the cost of losing skills in a housing crash
Until the realisation of the enormity of the task was grasped those at home and those on the way to the front comforted themselves with the line: "It'll be all over by Christmas." That was WW1.How much of this is a myth, I certainly am not qualified to judge. But ...
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Prospects for commercial property market dive in third quarter
The latest consensus forecast from the Investment Property Forum paints a bleak picture of prospects in the commercial sector.This will add to worries that the downward dip in the private commercial construction output figures is increasingly likely to turn into a downward slide.The Forum said the figures for the third ...
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Construction output falls 0.5% - but the drop is probably worse than it looks
So the construction output figures post a fall of 0.5% in the second quarter and recession in construction now looks more of a forgone conclusion than a fear.The first point to note is that was not just the private housing sector that pulled the figures down.But more worrying to me ...
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Average house will be worth 拢30,000 less in three years time, say investors
Investors in housing futures are still putting their money on a peak to trough fall in house prices of more than 30%, despite the Government's attempts to buoy the market.The Tradition "Futures HPI", which takes it figures from the prevailing prices in the residential property derivatives market and pegs itself ...