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Charity begins at home
No, I do not agree the industry should be funding migrant workers for skills training (30 July, page 15). Do British tradesmen get the same treatment if we work on the Continent? Maybe it鈥檚 about time Britain stopped being such a 鈥渂leeding heart鈥� and actually concentrated on solving our own ...
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CommentMultiplex on the spot
The FA may have other things on its mind than the construction of Wembley, but news that the stadium is presently hosting a good old-fashioned firefight between sub and main contractors should give anyone left at Soho Square additional cause for concern.
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Twitch and its yours
There are many reasons why one side to a dispute might claim that there was no contract, but the courts will do their very best to prove them wrong
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The Holyrood treatment
Cary Grant could have given a valuable lesson in construction procurement to the 鈥渃lient鈥� for the Scottish parliament building (23 July, page 50) 鈥� or the client for any large or complex development, come to that.
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A fair point
I was reading the article 鈥淏eauty is but skin deep 鈥︹�� (18 June, pages 26-28) and noticed that you show a photograph of the Saga headquarters in Folkestone, Kent, to illustrate the leaky windows that it has been cursed with. I would just like to point out that the photograph ...
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Divorced from reality
When Whitehall split responsibility for construction between departments, it was obvious things would get messy 鈥� but then the industry has always been misunderstood
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Dear Tony ...
I think the 鈥渁nswer on a postcard鈥� to Tony Bingham鈥檚 question of how to gather evidence of site disruptions at the time they occur (16 July, page 52) is to keep a site diary. A well-kept and detailed diary is invaluable to anyone having to prepare or determine claims for ...
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鈥� or, perhaps, Dear Diary
The answer has to be site diaries maintained by all supervisory staff from trade supervisor upwards. There should be an item in the bill for them, their content specified in the spec and, for programmes using the Society of Construction Law protocol, a withholding of a percentage of the account ...
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Czech list
The Czech Republic has updated its laws on public procurement to bring them into line with European rules 鈥� but there are one or two things you ought to know
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Take cover
Horbury 星空传媒 Systems Limited had erected ceilings within in a cinema complex. The ceiling to one of the cinemas collapsed, and the whole complex had been closed for several weeks. Clause 4.1 of the insurance policy said that Hampden Insurance would indemnify Horbury 星空传媒 Systems 鈥渋n respect of 鈥� ...
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It鈥檚 just cement to be
With the introduction of the European Landfill Directive, the UK鈥檚 remediation industry must face the fact that it has to find an alternative to a dig-and-dump strategy for contaminated land (16 July, page 14).
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CommentThe Butler test
Adjudicators, like prime ministers, rely on expert evidence to come to decisions. But what if they鈥檙e given duff information that reinforces their own bias?
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Third time unlucky
This is a successful appeal by the respondent, Kingston Upon Hull City Council, from the decision of the Court of Appeal reported in Legal Briefing No.8 of 2004. The applicant had worked for the respondent local authority as an environmental health officer and had been driven from his job by ...
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The tyranny of taste
The dead hand of totalitarian modernism should be prised from the shoulders of living architects: it was no more than a style among many others
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It鈥檚 a long, long road
Tony Bingham Those canny Irish have put their 拢4bn roadbuilding programme on hold until they see what happens to the English experiment with design-and-build
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A reader writes: The facts of death
After our interview with the family of Patrick O鈥橲ullivan, who was killed on the Wembley site, a reader gives us his experience of a fatality during a concrete pour
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Conspiracy uncovered
Dominic Helps If you鈥檙e in any doubt about what constitutes collusive tendering, the Office of Fair Trading has just published a decision that makes it absolutely clear
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Wonders & blunders
Tony Bingham is left aesthetically stranded by the RAC control centre on the M6, but the Bilbao Guggenheim comes to the rescue