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Not from round here
Not from round here Sir Digby Jones is right to highlight markets such as China and India as potentially fertile areas for exporting British PFI expertise.
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CommentGiant leaps
The gold rush, the space race ... the US psyche likes nothing more than a bit of competition, which might be good news as it finally begins to acknowledge the green agenda.
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How to fight a towering inferno
During the recent debate on tall buildings, as illustrated in Amanda Levete鈥檚 article (5 April, page 34) one issue is ignored: fire safety. Are we to presume the process of control in design and construction will ensure that the right decisions are taken on fire safety?
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QSs: the disaster managers
Further to the debate on the future of quantity surveying, perhaps if the role of the QS were taken more seriously, the Olympics 鈥� not to mention the Scottish parliament and Wembley stadium 鈥� would have been properly budgeted in the first place. The Scottish parliament ended up costing 10 ...
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CommentSculpture clash
When it comes to public art, there are two schools of thought: 鈥榩lonk art鈥�, where you plonk down a slab by a big-name artist, and a more local, integrated approach. Tarek Merlin offers a few lessons on both methods
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Hitting the books
The appellant, Charter Partnership Ltd (鈥淐harter鈥�), is a firm of architects which designed a warehouse that was leased to the respondent, Pearson Education Ltd (鈥淧earson鈥�). Pearson suffered financial loss when a number of books it owned which were stored in the warehouse were damaged in a flood at the warehouse. ...
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Wonders & blunders
Roger Bolton tells some harsh truths about his home town of Carlisle but is lost in wonder at the eternal city鈥檚 temple to all the gods
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CommentBully beef
Did you see any of the BBC TV drama Life on Mars? Sam Tyler, modern day detective, was accidentally catapulted back to 1973, in the same job and surrounded by Sweeney-style coppers of 35 years ago.
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CommentUnsupervised
While the upper echelons were attending high-profile weddings and the awards, those in the lower pay grades were free to fit solar panels facing the wrong way and misinterpret design instructions ...
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CommentWho are you today?
Contract administrators are in the sometimes awkward position of having to act for the client one minute and being impartial the next. Here鈥檚 what happened when one got the balance wrong
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Taking sides
The parties entered into a JCT With Contractor鈥檚 Design contract for the construction of 114 residential apartments in Manchester. This case concerns the enforcement of an adjudicator鈥檚 decision. During the adjudication, Crosby Homes raised three jurisdictional challenges:1 There was no jurisdiction under the 鈥渟ide agreements鈥�2 ...
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CommentTen reasons to do the right thing
You don鈥檛 have to cut carbon emissions just because your conscience tells you to. It鈥檚 good for business as well, says Stuart Wallace of the New Economics Foundation
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Proving the rule
I read with surprise your assertions in the article 鈥淚llegal T5 Worker Deported鈥� (20 April, page 11).
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CommentThe Polish Olympics
The Beijing Olympics are mainly being built by British firms, but if we don鈥檛 want our own Games built by eastern European labour, we need to train our young people now
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CommentNetworking
Since he got wi-fi, Alex Smith has got used to finding Kevin and Brian lurking around his house. In fact, as long as everybody鈥檚 secured their broadband, it鈥檚 a good way to meet the neighbours 鈥�