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CommentYesterdays man
Lord Lawson has long been a bucket on the tiller of sane attempts to steer the UK towards a smart, efficient, renewable low-carbon economy.
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CommentWhat more do we need to know?
Many people have suspected that there was something a bit haphazard about the way companies handled tower cranes.
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CommentKing Richard
Introducing the all-conquering Lord Rogers of Riverside: Pritzker prize-winning architect, confidante to the rich and powerful and, of course, would-be sexologist
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鈥� unless it鈥檚 your house
Richard Donnell (www.building.co.uk, 25 May) sensibly argues that the mix of new housing should be decided at the local level 鈥� top-down density or mix targets cannot possibly produce the right housing.
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CommentIn safe hands
With its CDM webinar and awards coverage, nobody could accuse the 星空传媒 website of not taking health and safety seriously. But that doesn鈥檛 mean there鈥檚 no room for humour.
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CommentGekko redux
Back in the eighties, Hollywood鈥檚 apotheosis of the cynical, sleazy financier had a real-life counterpart in the contractors who used new procurement systems to fleece hapless clients. And now they鈥檙e coming back 鈥�
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Flaming ridiculous
What a delightful irony it was to have an advert from those astute concrete people, depicting the Colindale fire, placed opposite an announcement for your zero-carbon conference (18 May, pages 50-51) 鈥� all that previously sequestered carbon being put back into the atmosphere!
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Divine intervention
I am a great admirer of Sir Michael Latham, but I refer you to my article 鈥淪hopfitters of the World Unite鈥� (23 February, page 38).
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CommentHow to play cops and robbers
Thieves tend to regard building sites as large, open air supermarkets where they can walk in and simply help themselves 鈥� bypassing the check-out tills, of course. But there are ways of thwarting them 鈥�
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If the cap fits鈥�
Cost capping orders may not have extended to construction cases yet, but the courts are becoming increasingly willing to use their powers to limit recoverable costs
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CommentLet the supplier beware
You may have taken every precaution to make sure a contract is watertight but a consumer can claim a term isn鈥檛 fair if it puts them at a significant disadvantage
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Bigger isn鈥檛 better 鈥�
I read with great interest your recent article on the possible formation of a trade body to work closely with the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) to deliver maintenance in the social housing sector (18 May, page 14).
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Propping Up
The claimant, Hart Investments, sought to hold the first defendant, Fidler, responsible for the collapse of part a building that Hart owned. Fidler was a structural engineer and denied responsibility for the collapse. He was employed by both the claimant and the second defendant, building contractor Larchpark.Hart alleged that Fidler ...
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A missed opportunity?
The new Pre-Action Protocol for Construction Disputes is to be welcomed. But it won鈥檛 stop some litigants from giving the other side the runaround.
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CommentHow to inspect things
Just what an 鈥渋nspecting professional鈥� has to do, and therefore what they can be sued for not doing, has always been a bit of a mystery. Luckily, a familiar case has shed some light on it
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CommentHappy as a herring
More zany fun with Britain鈥檚 most surreal industry, which this week tries to sell a chief executive while carting around a 12m mechanical plant and coaxing John Prescott out of that broom cupboard
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