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Suing the sewers
If overflowing sewers are driving you round the U-bend, don't hold out any hope of compensation from the water company 鈥� just get yourself a good mop
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A yell from the rebel
The Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors is not to be confused with the well respected ICE further down Great George Street from the RICS.
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Sit up and take notice
Do you have trouble figuring out whether you need to give notice of abatement? And do you know the difference between set-off and abatement? If not, read on
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Let's target the target-setters
I read with amusement the multiple stories in your 12 December issue (page 3 and15) arising from the woolly targets and grandiose statements issued by Dennis Lenard and Peter Rogers.
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CommentNo job for Superman
Any adjudicator who comes to a dispute too convinced of their own expertise may not be able to judge the case in an open-minded, impartial way
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What's in a handshake?
When a TV company started looking for a home for Fame Academy, it kept its options open with two potential agreements. If only it hadn't shook on one of them 鈥�
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Like working for free?
It will never cease to amazed me how little attention is paid in the world of business to the ability of a client to pay and how easy it is to convince suppliers to provide goods and services on credit.
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My cure-all health plan
We could improve construction in one fell swoop by making health and safety training a precondition for anybody becoming a company director
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Construction idol
Channel 4's Demolition Day proves that our appetite for reality TV knows no bounds 鈥� and that even experts in the building trade can develop a taste for showbiz
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Employers beware
Tony Bingham's report on the case of Rupert Morgan 星空传媒 Services vs Jervis and Jervis is fine as far as it goes (5 December, page 49).
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Axed? Not me
It is totally wrong for your magazine to have stated that the Richard Rogers Partnership had been "axed" by BAA (19 December, page 13).
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Another axe to grind
Your article (19 December 2003, page 13) about BAA cutting firms from its framework agreement is reported in such a way that will be damaging to our business and does not report our true working relationship with BAA.
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An affair of the heart 鈥�
How rich for journalists, of all people, to be lecturing others on the perils of boozing and bingeing. Well, yes, all right.
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Good old-fashioned advice
Tony Bingham is absolutely right (19 December, page 46) to advise that firms check the expertise and experience of any potential "other party" before entering into contracts.
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Doing the twist
Judges don't like it when a party plays fast and loose with the adjudication process, shifting ground opportunistically or otherwise giving itself wriggle room
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Superwoman speaks
I am a regular reader of your award-winning magazine and I have been a contributor before on race discrimination issues.
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A matter of honours
It is little wonder that there were just nine architects, and precisely nobody from construction, among the 300 refuseniks revealed in the Sunday Times to have turned down a New Year's honour.
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