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CommentYes, in your backyard
If we鈥檙e ever going to get the homes we need, rural nimbys are just going to have to accept some development 鈥� maybe even a new next-door neighbour鈥�
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Masters and apprentices
I read with interest the recent findings by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) that 53% of their members are having problems finding the right skills (July 20, page 11). Last year we provided a grant to support FMB members to train nearly 6,000 apprentices.
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CommentRip it up and start again
What do you do if you鈥檝e fallen out of favour with the City and your share price is heading south?
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CommentStreetlife
A construction website in Belarus reports on an important document on UK street design and now Alex Smith is using it in a squabble with his local council. Talk about a global village 鈥�
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CommentWacky races
This week鈥檚 leaders are Richard Rogers, a cyclist who鈥檚 rumoured to be taking performance-enhancing taxis, Jack Pringle 鈥� quite pacy on a wooden leg 鈥� and HOK, driving round town in a summer pavilion 鈥�
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Thanks, but no pranks
I would like to correct the impression given by your article about the investigation into the YouTube videos of on-site pranks (July 20, page 10).
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CommentKeep shouting and we鈥檒l keep failing
The pig-headed behaviour of some trade associations is wasting a priceless opportunity to reform the Construction Act to everyone鈥檚 advantage
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CommentAn exemplary disaster
Fail to renew your public liability insurance at your peril, as this dreadful tale of a family-run electrical firm, a little old lady鈥檚 bungalow and some (possibly) poorly rigged festoon cabling proves
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CommentThe devil in the detail
Heard the one about the contractor/consultant/client laid low by a few innocent-sounding sentences in their contract? In the first of a series, Helen Garthwaite looks at a cap on liability
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Are you ready for the big one?
Continuing our catastrophic theme, here鈥檚 a warning about the advisability of preparing for something going very badly wrong indeed 鈥� together with a checklist to help you do it
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CommentYou made the bed 鈥�
The McGlinn case raised the tricky question of the responsibility of the architect for a client鈥檚 unsafe design. But if the client insists on an unsafe design, is it not then the real designer?
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Comment鈥楻elax, babe鈥�
What Dennis Hopper told Amanda Levete and other Vegas stories, plus the secret story of Wembley鈥檚 image rights
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Missive attack
I always enjoy reading 星空传媒, not only because it contains interesting features and news, but because it is very clearly laid out and easy on the eye.
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Equity can aid housing crisis
The government has finally acknowledged that the crisis in affordable housing will have disastrous repercussions for the economy (July 27, page 20).
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CommentNothing safe about our houses
So Peter Hain鈥檚 first act as secretary of state for work and pensions was to call an inquest into why so many people are dying on building sites 鈥� 17 more this year than last.
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Third time unlucky
HG Construction Limited was engaged as contractor by Ashwell Homes (East Anglia) Limited for the development of new housing in Cambridgeshire. The contract was based on the JCT Standard Form of 星空传媒 Contract With Contractor鈥檚 Design (1998 Edition). The contract provided for sectional completion. Disputes arose and there were four ...
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Put it in writing
The claimant, Mott MacDonald Ltd (MM), is a specialist construction engineering consultant. It undertook a variety of engineering services for the defendant, property developer London & Regional Properties Ltd (LRP) in relation to the phase 2 infrastructure works for a business park at Park Royal, London. These services, which included ...