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Beyond Kyoto

2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

Regardless of whether the nations of the world embrace the objectives of Kyoto (Tom Barker鈥檚 article, 8 October, page 31), the impeding energy crisis will not go away.

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Unite behind unitisation

2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

Unitised curtain walling is by no means the new technology you think it is (22 October, page 76).

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Back issues

2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

Ripples from far-off countries and the morality of doing up pubs 鈥�

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Calling all megalomaniacs

2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

In your article 鈥淭he greatest buildings never built鈥� (22 October, page 42), you refer to Buckminster Fuller鈥檚 New York dome as a 鈥渕egalomaniac plan鈥�.

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Piling on the agony

2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

I read your piling special (15 October 2004, page 64) and found it lacking in up-to-date information in key areas.

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Let鈥檚 talk about sex

2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

In these days of chronic skills shortages, any initiative to double construction鈥檚 pool of potential recruits is welcome.

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Is it worth it?

2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

In recent issues of 星空传媒, the alarm has been raised about the increasing cost of going to adjudication. Now we want you to help us find out the facts

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Why we said what we said

2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

In your leader 鈥淩ouse 鈥� to Simmons鈥� (15 October, page 3), CABE鈥檚 views of the proposals for the Royal London Hospital are criticised as 鈥渋ll-judged鈥� and 鈥渋ll-timed鈥�.

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Miscalculation

2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

In the commentary accompanying your top 200 consultants feature (1 October, page 45), you say FaberMaunsell has 16,000 staff following acquisition of Oscar Faber in 2001.

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Mean streets

2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

If you want to make a difference to the quality of Britain鈥檚 environment, let鈥檚 have a crack at our ungenerous, confusing and arbitrary signage

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A matter of security

2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

Would I work in Iraq? Absolutely not.

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Be a record maker

2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

I read with interest the excellent article entitled 鈥淒ear site diary鈥� by Andrew Farrer (8 October, page 34).

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A site issue

2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

Imposing stricter safety regulations on the architect will not make construction safer as they are too far removed from the front line of construction (1 October, page 15).

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Hansom

2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

This week: hard-hitting, up-to-the-minute gossip truffles snorted from the moist earth by specially trained news pigs and delivered directly to your brain

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Slums for the future

2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

I wonder how many of your readers spotted that the balconies at Barons Place (8 October, page 39) have been installed upside down.

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The wrong kind of demand

2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

Nick Lane is right to sound a warning about using winding-up petitions to make debtors cough up (3 September, page 52).

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Who鈥檚 in control?

2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

The defendant contractor secured a contract to decorate the exterior of a building. The claimant was a painter and decorator in partnership with his father and they were instructed by the defendant to carry out the work. The work required the use of scaffolding, but no ladder was provided by ...

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Nothing comes of nothing

2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

Contractors are forever complaining about disruption on the job, but without hard evidence an adjudicator will award them precisely zero compensation

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What goes around 鈥�

2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

Here鈥檚 a warning to all those clients, and their lawyers, who want to make the granting of extensions conditional on a contractor giving notice about the effects of delay

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Open mike: Against CABE

2004-10-29T00:00:00Z

CABE鈥檚 apparently enlightened opinion that architecture is a force for social good conceals a totalitarian approach to human nature. Luckily, however, it鈥檚 wrong