All Comment articles – Page 538

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    ǿմý buys a pint … for MCMS

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Straight off, Helena warns me not to expect Frank to speak. “He’s the strong silent type,” she explains. “A bit like Lurch from the Addams Family.”

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    My favourites … Brendan Kerr

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    This week

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    Should we vote for Ken again?

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    It may not have the drama of the race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but the battle for the hot seat in London’s City Hall is every bit as fierce.

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    Brian Green

    2008-03-06T12:30:00Z

    As a journalist and commentator, Brian Green has tracked trends in construction, property and housing for more than 20 years. He was the project editor for last year's launch of the Contract Journal Top 100 report and edits Housing Market Intelligence, now regarded as the 'industry bible'. Brian is a ...

  • Chris Addison
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    Go Caroline!

    2008-03-06T00:00:00Z

    Thanks to an astonishing lapse in security at the communities department, Chris Addison has obtained a first draft of a mailout from housing minister Caroline Flint, in which her inner thoughts are exposed

  • Denise Chevin
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    Thinking it through

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    The need to be sustainable is now as universally accepted as the need to wear a seat belt. But as Ryanair’s campaign advertising “1 million flights for 1p” illustrates, it’s one thing to accept the desirability of sustainable living, another to make the sacrifices to actually do it.

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    Web watch — Measuring up

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    In the third of his series on construction industry websites, Martin Hornagold turns his attention to surveyors and again finds that they are failing basic tests

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    An interim measure

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    I take issue with Amanda Levete’s position on nuclear power (8 February, pages 30-31).

  • Hansom
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    It’s good to talk

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Human interaction takes many forms, from rapping to your clients to phoning confidential hotlines. But sometimes nothing says it better than the good old impersonal email and the hidden bugging device…

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    The insurance game

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Regarding Malcolm Taylor’s letter (15 January, pages 36-37) a few corrections are required.

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    My favourites … Julian Hakes

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    This week

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    Go east

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    The Thames Gateway is the perfect location for an international airport that won’t annoy the neighbours like Heathrow does, argues Nick Raynsford

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    In the detail

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?

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    A failure of democracy

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Regarding the article “Row over supervisor safety training” (11 January, page 14), once again the Construction Confederation finds itself at odds with the rest of the industry.

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    The case for a research levy

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Your report on research funding (18 January, page 48) made clear that, outside the area of construction products, market forces do not stimulate significant funding for construction research.

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    Business and pleasure

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    In one respect, construction is like the dairy industry, in that when the the man delivering the product meets the woman receiving it, all kinds of things can happen. Gus Alexander has some good examples …

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    Illegal workers: You have been warned

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    The new clampdown on illegal workers puts firms right in the firing line. But it ought not to be an issue for well run human resources departments, says Angus Darroch-Warren

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    Money in the bank

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    As the originators of the project bank account (PBA) model, my colleagues at Rider Levett Bucknall and I were delighted to see your legal columnists giving a positive welcome to the PBA (8 January, pages 62-65).

  • The Stephen Lawrence centre, the day after it was vandalised
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    Architecture is not enough

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    As an architect who used to live in east Greenwich (we worked on The Albany Project in my second year at architecture school) and whose children attended school in Deptford, I am writing from the US to express my disgust at the racist attack described in your article (“Adjaye’s Stephen ...

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    Arbitration: Heifer International Inc vs Helge Christiansen*

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Heifer International Inc (Heifer) is a company registered in the British Virgin Islands and is owned by the family of a wealthy Russian who lives in England. Heifer engaged Helge Christiansen (HC), a Danish architect and his firm, Christiansen Arkitekter KS MAA PAR (CA), to refurbish a substantial home ...