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CommentNo need for this
Don鈥檛 be fooled by the chatter about sustainability 鈥� if you look at the way we actually do business, the waste piles up so fast you need wings to stay above it
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CommentSummer larks
After a summer break, your diligent correspondent returns with a silly season round-up including a crackdown on peeping Toms in Bahrain, a Google-wide search for Totty and party animals in Cowes
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But on the other hand
Paul Jackson complains that the planners prevented him putting in double-glazed replacement windows in a Victorian house in a conservation area. Good! It鈥檚 not just the oversize plastic sections, it is also the blue tinted glass and the peculiar hollow in the reflections that make such windows look horridly out ...
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A word in your ear
Belatedly following up on your 14 June issue, readers who feel that they have problems with alcohol or drugs would be well advised to phone one of these numbers:
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CommentDont do it, son!
Matt Bastone writes: 鈥淟ike another recent contributor, I鈥檝e just returned from St Petersburg, where I saw a repair being carried out to a rainwater downpipe. Access was gained by suspending a wooden platform beneath the overhang. As I took the photo the operative was being helped by his mates back ...
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CommentWhat the Poles have done for us
A construction industry without foreign labour is about as viable as a fish on a skiing holiday. So in the midst of the political hoo-ha over immigration, one thing is clear.
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CommentThe pitfalls of DIY
Hanging the odd picture up is one thing, but once you鈥檙e into serious DIY you鈥檙e bound by the same standards as a professional builder. So if something bad happens on your property, you can end up paying damages, costs and even other defendants鈥� costs. Nasty
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An exclusive deal
The respondent, Stainforth, obtained a loan from the appellant company, Lexi, to purchase a property. Stainforth had difficulty in re-financing the loan and asked Lexi if it knew of anyone who might be interested in buying the property. Lexi knew of a property investor who expressed an interest in buying ...
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Precast concrete has matured
While delighted that Bob Barlov of Pascall + Watson recognises that precast concrete is a robust, durable cladding material (7 July, page 90), I am disappointed that he has been allowed to criticise our industry with comments that are obsolete, ill-founded and unjustifiable.
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An open letter to Tim Byles
Dear Tim, congratulations on taking up the challenge of the 拢40bn 星空传媒 Schools for the Future Programme (. I wish you most sincerely every success 鈥� our young people and the teaching staff do deserve better learning environments.
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Im backing Jackson
Many councils seem to be trying to get energy policy right, and have written strict requirements in their Local Development Plans to achieve a high standard of sustainability and energy efficiency 鈥� often citing BREEAM and EcoHomes standards as the benchmark. Great, but the requirement will probably not apply to ...
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A questionable answer
This summer, the PFI M6 toll road was the subject of another High Court case 鈥� this time over whether it鈥檚 possible to withdraw a claim from adjudication. But Mr Justice Jackson鈥檚 ruling on this raises some troubling problems with adjudication itself
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An unconventional route
Martino Giaquinto As PFI projects go, the M6 toll road has had more than its fair share of disputes, but now one has gone all the way to the Court of Appeal over the usually straightforward issue of provisional sums
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From Russia with love
In regard to Bill Mellor鈥檚 photograph of the pipe crossing the footpath in St Petersburg (28 July), could this be the UK鈥檚 gas supply from the Russian Federation?
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Local leads the way
Your facts about local authority representation on the Public Sector Construction Clients Forum are wholly wrong (28 July).
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CommentMint issue
Most of us are leaving cyberspace and heading for the beach, briefly fretting about the dogs, cats and mint plants that we leave behind. Yes, that鈥檚 right, mint plants.
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Tortoise vs hare
I was interested to read Chris Jarvis鈥� letter (21 July) concerning the use of thermal mass in new buildings.