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Getting the wind-up
There are less catastrophic, but just as effective, methods of securing payment than resorting to a winding-up petition (13 August, page 34; Letters, 17 September, page 32).
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CommentGenerals and mercenaries
If construction and warfare have anything in common, it鈥檚 that the top brass position themselves a safe distance from the people on the front line
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Transatlantic drift
The neat substitution of 鈥淯SA鈥� for 鈥淯K鈥� in a quote attributed to me (鈥淎rchitect quits over troubled Nato project鈥�, 10 September, page 10) certainly makes for more titillating and incendiary copy than the facts.
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Doorstepping
We has swapped the hurly-burly of management at Berkeley Homes for the post of managing director at Silver Homes, a privately owned housebuilder developing just 20-50 upmarket homes a year in Sussex, Surrey and Kent
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Designers in the dock
The Health and Safety Executive is targeting consultants who do not comply with the CDM Regulations. Two recent cases highlight the dangers of non-compliance
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CommentStand and deliver
Up until two weeks ago, we thought that 150,000 additional households were being formed every year.
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Delayed reaction
The letter from Peter Atherton regarding the lack of skilled labour (3 September, page 35) brings to mind some information I read in Peter Nicholson鈥檚 Encyclopedia of Architecture.
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CommentThe green choke-chain
Architects and other designers face environmental liabilities that will be extremely hard to comply with 鈥� but potentially ruinous if ignored, says Ian Abley
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CommentWonders & blunders
Chris Donald, former editor of Viz magazine, raises a cheer for Victorian station houses and two fingers to a 1960s office block
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Bluefield development
The government wants about 2500 wind turbines constructed in six years, many on the North Sea. This raises interesting contractual issues for those building them 鈥�
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Back issues - September 1914
Lessons from Germany: Absent architects and the French Parthenon 鈥�
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Wriggling-out petitions
I read Nick Lane鈥檚 article 鈥淒on鈥檛 fall for Redmond鈥檚 wind-up鈥� (3 September, page 52) with great interest and learned a lot from his hints to main contractors on how to avoid the consequences of receiving a statutory demand or winding-up petition.
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CommentHolyrood: The reckoning
Even after the acres of column inches and the yards of screeching headlines dedicated to the creation of the Scottish parliament building, the Fraser report still manages to add another degree of chill.
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What the deuce 鈥�?
We would like to clarify that Capita Symonds is the lead structural engineering as well as civil engineering consultant for the Wimbledon Centre Court project (3 September, page 16).
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Demanding satisfaction
Brighton. Buxton. Broadway. Bradford. Britain鈥檚 most lively townscapes gained their individual character because development was in the hands of local specialists. Today most of the country鈥檚 output comes from volume housebuilders, and they work wherever there is a local market.