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Hotpants
In your article about BAA being forced to remove plastic windows from listed buildings, Douglas Kent says 鈥減utting plastic double-glazed windows into an old building is like dressing your great granny up in hotpants,鈥� and 鈥渇rom an energy conservation viewpoint is one of the least effective measures you can take.鈥�
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CommentWhat the Fiona tells us
The House of Lords has just decided a case that鈥檚 been around long enough to acquire its own nickname. And although it鈥檚 about a huge shipping dispute, it will have a big impact on construction
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The Lords鈥� diagnosis
Joe Griffiths聽Can an employer be found negligent if the presence of asbestos fibres in a former worker鈥檚 lungs causes clinical depression? The House of Lords thought not
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CommentConstruction takes centre stage
This week offered a fantastic shop window for construction. First there was the glamour surrounding the Queen鈥檚 opening of St Pancras and the high-speed rail link.
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CommentC is for copyright, D is for defects
The A to Z of construction law聽Our instant course in legal concepts continues with some advice on how to protect your design ideas and what to do if defects come to light on your building
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Bennett (Electrical) Services vs Inviron
This was a summary judgment application to enforce an adjudication award. A dispute had arisen between the parties in the course of electrical installation works that the Claimant was carrying out for the Defendant. The Claimant referred the dispute to adjudication, however the Defendant asserted that the adjudicator did not ...
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Bad, bad, bad
The suggestion of a 10-15% reduction in the UK鈥檚 renewable energy target is bad news on many levels.
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CommentThe Arctic who?
Amaya Lopez鈥檚 鈥楬ow to survive鈥� series has returned to 星空传媒鈥檚 careers website. Here, in a sneak preview, she tackles (with impeccable sensitivity) the problem of being an oldie in the office
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星空传媒 buys a pint for鈥� Anshen + Allen
We meet on a dark autumn鈥檚 evening. The clocks have gone back, the nights are drawing in and it鈥檚 Halloween tomorrow. Spooky goings-on are afoot.
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CommentThe simple secret of success
The expert goes to Majorca to deliver a paper about the contractual side of building 鈥� and learns a lot about how it really works from a man who doesn鈥檛 even go to his lecture 鈥�
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Time for a rethink
Your story announcing the second review into the 星空传媒 Schools for the Future (BSF) procurement process is a welcome step as it recognises that there is scope for improvement (21 September, page 11).
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Are you making your staff鈥檚 life a misery?
Millions of days are lost each year because of stress, depression and anxiety. In addition, the quality of work suffers. It therefore makes sense to reduce the pressure on your workers
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Leaks in the system
Ed Derrick鈥檚 views on what might be done with the proposed water grid (19 October, page 40) are interesting.
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CommentHansom Trick or treat
In this spookiest of weeks, skeletons are found lurking under old Epsom racecourse, a site manager shares his disturbing visions and Will Alsop is the wickedest man in Paris
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CommentMore DIY disasters
Show me a bespoke contract and I鈥檒l show you a powerful client throwing its weight around. But having said that, are they better than standard fare? The short answer is 鈥榥o鈥�