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*Tips on making an acquisition
Lee Teste is a partner at Manchester-based consultant TMG Corporate Finance. His recent work has involved advising on Charles Evans Group's acquisition of Stockport Joinery and Stockport Windows.
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Why the Tories will win
The government's refusal to treat the construction industry as the special case it is has made it very difficult for Labour to triumph in next year's election
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CommentPasta and paranoia
Rubber chicken takes in a trade fair in Bologna and discovers that the bella paese's historic love of all things beautiful extends to stoats' skulls, fossilised trees and, er, padlocks
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Measure for measure
Insurers are providing shrinking cover on terrorism and asbestos risks. Now consultants have new standard contract terms that shrink their liabilities to match
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Knocking an opportunity
I hope that Wendy Coggan's remarks (Letters, 19 March) spur other RICS members to reply to our surveys.
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Safe as a prefab house
In reply to your piece on the Peabody Trust and prefabrication, we have to move away from the chaos of a construction site towards the relative order of a factory.
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In defence of Peabody
Your article "Dream Over" (12 March, page 18), was sensational reportage to say the least.
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There's a limit to capping
The claimant, Westminster 星空传媒, tendered for building works in respect of a property owned by Mr Beckingham. The specification stated that the contract would be in the form of a JCT IFC 1998 incorporating amendments. A letter of intent dated 27 June 2002 instructed the claimant to proceed with the ...
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CommentMan bites dog
With the scent of unpaid levy in its nostrils, the CITB can be a bit of a rottweiler. Perhaps it needs to change its image and pay more attention to its product?
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Hunter becomes prey
It always pays to read the small print, especially when employers hide booby traps in it. Luckily, these traps are excellent guidance for the reform of the Construction Act
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More poor SAPS
You may remember the case of the boilers that weren't of satisfactory quality despite being in perfect working order. Well, the argument's heating up鈥�
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Pinned and needled
A client's attempts to wriggle out of adjudication on three tricky points of law were quashed by one very clever adjudicator 鈥� and he wasn't even a lawyer
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Makeover for Marks
In view of Marks & Spencer's attempt to rebrand itself with its new Gateshead store (5 March, page 18), and if their catalogue is anything to go by, perhaps they would like to consider changing the store's name to suit. May I suggest "Markea"?
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Third time lucky?
As John Redmond pointed out (5 March, page 52), the New Engineering Contract (second edition) has not really been tested by the courts.
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Labour takes the gloves off
Has the penny finally dropped at Whitehall? It's a truism of British politics that every party runs for election on the promise of freeing business from the dead hand of state regulation.
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Stop the planning freeze
The current drive for "affordable housing" is undoubtedly a gallant attempt to allow lower income households to invest in their own property.