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End the Jurassic period
Just when we thought the Jurassic period was over, another dinosaur rears its head! Does Michael Brown (23 March, page 34) not realise that the world has changed and that the skills of cost consultants and quantity surveyors have never been more in demand? The market wants effective management of ...
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CommentIan McGlinn vs everybody else
You build your multimillion-pound dream home, but there are some defects. So you leave it empty for five years, then tear it down and sue everyone in sight, apart from the builder, which has gone bust. Do you win?
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CommentConstruction鈥檚 movable feast
Fraud, theft and vandalism cost the industry more than 拢1m a day, with some of the stolen plant surfacing as far away as Australia. What can you do about it?
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QSs around the world
I was surprised to read Michael Brown鈥檚 letter about the QS shortage. He is factually incorrect and trapped in a bygone age.
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CommentMastering apprenticeships
The continuing troubles of construction apprenticeship training are depressingly familiar.
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CommentApocalypse cow
The only way we can save humanity from climate change is if we all pull together. But that鈥檚 not likely if bankers keep insisting on aircon, hedge funds keep looking for profit and cows keep 鈥� doing what cows do
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Enough about ORourke
As an informed client, am I the only person fed up with hearing how great Laing O鈥橰ourke is and how inspirational Ray O鈥橰ourke is?
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... and do the right thing
Gillian Birkby, who assisted the HSE team that revised the regulations, outlines the role of the CDM co-ordinator and the duties of clients
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A two-horse race
Keen racegoers will know there鈥檚 a fundamental difference between Aintree and Ascot but your readers may be confused into thinking they are interchangeable following 星空传媒鈥檚 coverage of both in recent weeks. It鈥檚 time we marked the card.
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CommentThe Pole tax
Send us your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to PAYE 鈥� but seriously, migrant workers bring with them a host of tax headaches. Simon Massey highlights the main issues
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Too much to do
The article 鈥淩ogers pulls out of Olympic velopark鈥�(16 March, page 12) was somewhat misleading. Although we decided not to go for this scheme, I reviewed the competition documents for the velopark and applaud the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) for a clear and well-run competition structure.
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CommentThe towers of London
The capital鈥檚 flirtation with tall buildings is becoming a love affair, thanks to the commercial and aesthetic success of recent designs. But how can we keep it going?
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Let鈥檚 stick together ...
The new CDM regulations come into force tomorrow. In this special, Christopher Pedder explains how the new rules will promote partnering ...
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CommentHansom Ripping yarns
A spell-binding 348-page account of PFI standardisation, the equally long-running saga of David Cameron鈥檚 home improvements and a rather jolly chinwag with the Tory MEP for Gibraltar
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CommentFouled by your own side
If you hire somebody to do something, then prevent them doing it, then you can鈥檛 sue them for breach of contract. Let鈥檚 see how this fundamental rule applies to Wembley
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