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Against understanding
Not understanding creates innovation, innovation creates risk, risk creates a chance of success, success creates understanding 鈥� so we can stop innovating 鈥�
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Our 75 million new neighbours
I'd like to bid a nervous welcome to the new workers joining the European Union's labour force tomorrow.
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Atkins' 24 hour party person
So Keith Clarke has "normal" working hours of 7.30am to 7.30pm, as well as working the occasional Sunday, and is still able to say: "You've got to have a life. If you can't go out and enjoy yourself, what's the point?" (2 April, page 26).This does seem a tad contradictory. ...
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Get Cracking
"I don't know much about coding," one housebuilder told me as I researched this issue's cover feature. Lucky man.
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An open question
The full implications of the Disability Discrimination Act will shortly compel developers to sort out any access issues they may have 鈥� or risk paying a hefty price
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Legal twister
This is a game in which players pretend to be appeal court judges and then try to get themselves into ludicrous positions. Here's how it's done
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Green light for government
The defendant approved a development of an accommodation centre for asylum seekers. The development was to be on land owned by the Home Office, but would be operated by its chosen contractor, who would be granted a lease of the land before the development commenced. There had been local opposition ...
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CommentKate's impossible dream
Kate Barker damned the construction industry in her report to the government. But she doesn't understand the facts whereof she speaks. So here they are
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Don't get caught in cahoots
Tough anti-cartel legislation has enabled the authorities to crack down on price-fixers. To avoid hefty fines, firms must know when co-operation ends and collusion begins
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CommentForeword: Tony Blair
A message of support from the prime minister for the 10th annual 星空传媒 Awards 2004
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Dear Barbara,
Just a quick note, because I know you'll be getting advice in both ears at once courtesy of everyone from Tony Blair and Sir Steve Redgrave to the drivers of Hackney carriages and those lunatics who call radio phone-ins at 3am.
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Novation without tears
In the wake of Blyth & Blyth, novation agreements have needed clarification. But will the publication of not one but two standard forms be a help or a hindrance?
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Living on one's wits
Small practices are the tiny, furry mammals skipping under the scaly feet of industry dinosaurs, with an agility and an imagination that they can't begin to grasp
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Pressure testing the HBF
The Sustainable 星空传媒s Task Group. It doesn't sound like a revolutionary cabal.
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Food for thought
We invite you to chew over the main issues arising from the proposed review of the Construction Act, while he helps himself to a large slice of humble pie 鈥�
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CommentInnocence and experience
If an adjudicator sees something they shouldn't, is there any way that they can escape a charge of bias? Here's how one adjudicator tackled the problem
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Damage limitation
The claimant, a development company, issued proceedings for negligence against the defendant, their retained architectural consultants, as a result of water penetration into the rear basement structure of a number of houses in a terrace which the claimant was refurbishing for investment purposes. The defendant issued Part 20 proceedings against ...