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Cashing in on the green pound
星空传媒鈥檚 鈥済reen gurus鈥� raised some timely points on the commercial reality of building sustainably (16 March). On the one hand, we recognise that this is a thriving industry with great potential; on the other, housing developers see upfront costs and little hope of recovering them.
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CommentRisky business
EU steps to tighten up the law on the safety of employees could make UK health and safety legislation even more out of kilter with the law on negligence
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CommentThe man in black
People sometimes get the idea that adjudicators are a bit like referees on the rugby pitch. Actually, that鈥檚 the job of the parties. The adjudicator is more like the scoreboard
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CommentCIOB is better than the rest
I was intrigued by the 鈥渉ead to head鈥� with the Chartered Institute of 星空传媒 (CIOB), but noted a few matters that weren鈥檛 addressed (16 March).
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RICS fees aren鈥檛 鈥榙irt cheap鈥�
A great idea for new members of professional institutions to interview the leaders, but your interviewer of the future RICS president was too easily fobbed off with trite answers (9 March).
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What do you get for 880bn?
One factor that is contributing to German growth (16 March) is the increasing self-confidence of the Germans.
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CommentRubbish rules
All Tony Bingham wanted was to enjoy his Bakewell tart, but it triggered a dispute with Mrs B over the best way to dispose of the packaging. It was all a bit like his day job, really ...
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Raking in the profits
I read your magazine each week with despair and resignation at the state of the industry, but I believe that the latest band wagon 鈥� zero-carbon houses 鈥� should be exposed as a fraud.
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Do we really need QSs?
A professor on a visit to Japan years ago told the local industry: 鈥淒on鈥檛 give them visas.鈥�
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CommentMipim uncovered
Ah, the glamour of the Riviera ... long-legged Russian beauties, a daring daylight robbery and, erm, that鈥檚 about it 鈥� unless you count middle-aged male nudity or the stand from Corby council
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Logical or lucrative?
Sir Michael Latham鈥檚 call (9 March, page 36) for Gordon Brown to re-establish a Department of the Environment (DoE) under one ministerial responsibility is sensible, which is why it won鈥檛 happen.
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Shining a light
In the original reserved judgment the judge found that the defendants were liable to the claimants for infringing a right to light to two windows which illuminated some stairs leading to the basement of the claimant鈥檚 building. However, the judge declined to grant an injunction and left the question of ...
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CommentPicking on the wrong guy
Like many others living in Jordan, I am concerned about the dropping level of the Dead Sea (23 February, page 40).
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Not so charitable
Regarding your article on major international architectural practices designing affordable homes for South African township dwellers (9 March, page 15), surely for all the publicity they will get, they could put in more than 10 hours each.
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint ... for Churchill Retirement Living
The last time I had a bevvy with Spencer McCarthy, he took about 50 mates, relations and hacks to the Cartier International polo match and spent thousands on crates of champagne.
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Scrap BSF as a waste of time
Regarding Paul Foster鈥檚 column about 星空传媒 Schools for the Future (BSF) on 9 March (page 40), I have deep suspicions about this initiative.
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CommentGreat British PFI
The UK is a leader in procuring public buildings with private money. We should be doing much more to export that expertise to the rest of the world
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CommentTwo steps forward, one back
Just when the government is keen to speed up planning, a recent case on environmental assessment looks set to undermine its efforts, write Brian Greenwood and Sherryll L鈥檕ken