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A shrewd investment
I read with interest Lindy Patterson鈥檚 article on project bank accounts (23 May, page 59) and thought to myself, if she had actually attended, as I did, the conference at the House of Commons that she wrote about, she would have had the opportunity to hear the answers to the ...
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CommentI is for indemnity
The A-Z of construction law -聽Our instant course in legal concepts continues by asking what exactly is an indemnity and how would you spot one in a contract?
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CommentGeneration gripe
Fed up with eager young pups at work who don鈥檛 know they鈥檙e born? Or had enough of hearing how it was back in the old days? Email us anonymously with what鈥檚 bugging you about the other generations 鈥�
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CommentLet鈥檚 hear it for the engineers
New thinking:聽We鈥檙e qualified, skilled and creative, so why do even our colleagues fail to recognise the importance of engineers? Aaron Wall kicks off a series of columns by our graduate advisory board
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CommentEmpty nest syndrome
I was delighted to read your article this week on 鈥淒angerous creatures鈥� (30 May, page 34). You highlighted the effect of having a bat present on site. Do you realise that in reality the law goes much further?
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CommentEgo-friendly
We鈥檙e all depressed. Nobody has cash to buy all our wharfside flats any more. But take heart, says Chris Addison, help is at hand in the form of the the insane, the vain and the very, very rich
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CommentMy Digital Life - Wayne Hemingway
The fashion guru, housing designer and all-round renaissance man loves to use the internet to buy northern soul and pick up artefacts for his museum, but reckons you still can鈥檛 beat a bit of fresh air
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CommentJust desserts
Bouygues gets its own back on your diarist, BCO delegates take delight in Gordon Brown鈥檚 travails, and Lord Foster pours his considerable talent into making a really splendid jelly
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Stick to the day job
Regarding his decision to design a five-star hotel in Dubai (2 June, building.co.uk), Brad Pitt said: 鈥淚t will underpin not only my values for environment-friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment.鈥�
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CommentIdentity crises
Although name borrowing may seem like a simple concept, it can lead to conflicting issues for all parties involved
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Rotten at the core
Further to your reports on the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) investigation (16 May and subsequently), bid rigging can only operate if there is a central reporting body that holds all the potential bids for the bidding contractors to manipulate.
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CommentRICS consultancy form: On surprisingly good form
The new crop of RICS standard contract are about to make quantity surveyors鈥� lives a lot easier
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A health check
Health and safety regs set out legal requirements for employers to make suitable risk assessments. It鈥檚 not as easy as it sounds鈥�
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Fewer carrots, more stick
A commercial market should never be allowed to test or qualify sustainability 鈥� unless you鈥檙e not totally serious about the issue (2 May, page 3).
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星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for Scott Tallon Walker
The London office of Irish architect Scott Tallon Walker is despondent on this rainy Monday evening. Why? Because their colleagues in Ireland are enjoying a bank holiday.
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House of Lords decision: Reinwood Ltd v L Brown & Sons Ltd
This was an appeal to the House of Lords by a contractor, L Brown & Sons (鈥淏rown鈥�) against a Court of Appeal decision which had held that Brown had not been entitled to determine a contract (JCT Standard Form 1998 edition) between it and the respondent employer, Reinwood Limited (鈥淩einwood鈥�), ...
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CommentState aid
So, is the industry about to enter a more enlightened era? That鈥檚 the idea behind this week鈥檚 launch of an industry鈥揼overnment manifesto for improving construction鈥檚 performance in several key areas, from sustainability in the ecological sense to sustainability in training and recruitment.
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Unemployment jumps but no sign yet of slump in construction jobs
Employment in the wider economy continued to grow but there was a jump of 38,000 in the number of unemployed in the three months to April, official figures show.Rising unemployment is seen as a key factor in determining the shape of the economic slowdown and if it rises sharply may ...
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Mervyn King warns banks on binge drinking
I have a lot of time for Mervyn King's comments. Here's one from today that I think is worth a look. It is from his speech to the British Bankers' Association on "Banking and the Bank of England"."It is often said that the role of a central bank is to ...