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CommentOpen sesame
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A leaky roof
TFW Printers Ltd (鈥淭FW鈥�) engaged Interserve Project Services Ltd to carry out certain building works. The building contract was the JCT Agreement for Minor Works. The works included the replacement of a pressed steel valley gutter to part of one of the roofs of the building. In carrying out these ...
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Man from the JCT
Jeff Brown鈥檚 article on JCT 2005 and third-party rights (27 October, page 54) refers to a glaring omission.
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Rogers and the Olympic icon
Isn鈥檛 the pessimistic tone of 星空传媒鈥檚 review of progress on the Olympic stadium a little premature (27 October, page 26)?
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CommentIt鈥檚 going to be a long, long time
STATE YOUR CASE 鈥� The latest idea for disposing of nuclear waste is to offer councils financial incentives to bury it in their backyard. But, says Nigel Robson, the progress is measured in decades
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Gay and lusty commoners that will ramp and thrive...
BACK ISSUES 鈥� October 1945 Sodom and Gomorrah
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CommentCausing death and saving lives
The bill on manslaughter and corporate homicide that is midway through its second reading in parliament must ensure that senior managers can be held personally to account
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CommentWonders & blunders
Eric Parry hails one bucolic estate in the Square Mile, and rails against many, many others, all over the country
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CommentThe best laid plans
Rival engineers accidentally lay on parties at the same location, Frank Lampard fails to organise a trip to the zoo and 星空传媒 hacks somehow conspire to win an intelligence test...
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Men behaving badly
A survey by the Chartered Institute of 星空传媒 reveals that many in construction have a shockingly complacent attitude to corruption 鈥� and don鈥檛 even realise that certain practices are criminal
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CommentAre the Games in trouble already?
London鈥檚 euphoria at snatching the Olympic Games from the jaws of Paris has been washed away by a steady flow of news stories about the problems of delivery.
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CommentThe times they have a-changed
Tony Bingham聽It used to be seen as bad form to adjudicate negligence claims against professional gentlemen. On the other hand, that does seem to be what parliament intended...
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In the red
The claimant, Nearfield Ltd was one of six parties to a joint venture agreement dated April 2002. Other parties to the agreement included Lincoln Trust Co (Jersey) Ltd (LTC) and LTC鈥檚 offshore nominee, Lincoln Nominees Ltd (LNL); second and first defendants respectively. The agreement was entered into for the purposes ...
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Virtual reality
I would like to allay Darryl Nash鈥檚 concern voiced in your Specifier section (20 October) that it is challenging for architects to get sufficient building services knowledge to operate the more sophisticated Part L 2006 compliance software tools.
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CommentDo we have to pay up?
LEGAL AID - A contractor has withheld 拢18k and is claiming a further 拢60k from the subbie because the project did not meet practical completion. Is there any way to dismiss the claim?
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CommentMessage for Margaret
In response to your interview with construction minister Margaret Hodge (20 October, page 30) 鈥� I would like to see her position the industry so that a career in construction is seen as desirable for schoolgirls and hope that we can soon read the headline in Ray O鈥橰ourke鈥檚 inimitable style, ...
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CommentA letter from Northamptonshire
Shadow minister Tim Boswell shares his thoughts on how to go about building more houses (and roads, schools, clinics) in his parliamentary constituency 鈥�