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A BTEC in boredom
Having enjoyed a reasonably successful career in construction and having a 16-year-old son with the prospect of 10 good GCSEs and no particular idea what he wants to do, I persuaded him to apply for a BTEC in construction.
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Wonders & blunders
RIBA president-elect Jack Pringle vows that a former icon will rise again but would rather see a Holborn hotel buried without trace
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CommentThe theory of black holes
he phrase 鈥榙efined provisional sum鈥� in the JCT98 contracts may lead employers to believe that they have price certainty. In fact, they have nothing of the sort
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A tricky treaty
Greg Trickey misunderstands the European Union constitution (12 November, page 37), the legal threat of which will be no greater to the UK鈥檚 鈥渞oyal鈥� chartered bodies than to the Crown Prosecution Service, the Royal Mail or indeed the royal family itself.
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Target practice
In the article 鈥淔atality rate overshadows HSE鈥檚 healthy living plan鈥� (15 November, page 17), some confusion crept in, which resulted in the views I expressed being misrepresented.
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鈥� On a more optimistic note
Getting role models in the industry to talk directly to young men and women is an effective way of changing attitudes, as suggested by Victoria Caesar (Letters, 12 November, page 36).
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CommentKindly leave the stage
It鈥檚 an accepted rule that if an adjudicator throws out a claim, the losing party can鈥檛 rush out and hire another one. But in this case, that鈥檚 exactly what happened 鈥�
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Tell it to the judge
All forms of dispute resolution involve a scary degree of uncertainty, complexity or cost. Now a proposed shake-up of the courts promises a better alternative
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CommentGetting up to speed
When we started putting together our preview of 2005, we didn鈥檛 pre-judge the issues.
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Doorstepping
James Moody took on the managing director鈥檚 role at the newly reorganised Eastern region of housebuilder Crest Nicholson three months ago, and he had to hit the ground running. Not only is he managing existing sites 鈥� he also had to find himself an office
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CommentGlory days
Our building sites are bloodless descendants of the sites of the roaring 50s, when men were men, lavatories were buckets and passers-by were fair game
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Learning curve
Two brief points in connection with your article on my 鈥渞e-education鈥� (12 November, page 44).
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Why bother?
In response to your recent editorial about encouraging young women into the construction industry I must ask, why?
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CommentLet鈥檚 be Belgian
Our system of project insurance wastes about 拢1bn a year, and invariably leads to the courts. Why can鈥檛 we have project-based insurance, as they do on the Continent?