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Too little, too late
"Four Pads" Prescott is in a pickle over housing again 鈥� and not just with his domestic arrangements.
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Creative problem solving
In your article, "Repeat after me: 'Yes I can run your project'", (17 October, page 44), you highlighted the requirement for project managers to be more focused on relationship management in their approach, and to be less process-driven.
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Legalised coupling
The limited liability partnership is a fresh legal vehicle, offering ease of upkeep, tax efficiency and manoeuvrability for consultants that work together
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Smear campaign
A reader writes: Tony Clarke tells the story of how low morale led a site worker to express his feelings
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CommentWonders & blunders
Simon Woodroffe raises a cup of saki to Foster and Partners' GLA building, but makes water in the direction of a London estate
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Beware of bunny boilers
Getting yourself out of a failed relationship with your builders can be liberating, but be very, very careful how you do it 鈥� they could take a terrible revenge 鈥�
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Prevention is better than cure
Rudi Klein (24 October, page 35) is right to point out that there is no room for defective thinking to remedy defective design.
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Look before you leap
I'd like to invite Paul Reeder (24 October, Wonders and blunders, page 40) to come and visit the new-look Hayward Gallery.
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Brief encounter: The battle of words
Is the new 30-page JCT Major Projects Form dangerously scanty, or fashionably lean? Our chatroom guests weigh up the contract and its implications
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Getting from A to B
The government can't work out why construction isn't delivering the schools and hospitals it promised the public. Actually, it's not that hard to see why
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Spot the adjudication loophole
I am advising a builder who has a dispute with a private residential client. His contract, a standard JCT98 form, states that there is provision for adjudication.
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52 ways to improve the industry
Congratulations on a review full of positive thinking and good ideas (Not the Egan review, 24 October, page 42).
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Making a mark on the 21st century
The Brick Development Association's annual Brick Awards showcase excellence in the use of brick, whether by architects, designers, engineers or brickwork contractors.
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Be specific
A two-stage procurement strategy for the Chemistry 星空传媒 for Queen Mary University of London was described as "traditional" (18 July, page 64), presumably in the expectation that readers were familiar with the procedure.
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Why are we so stiff?
Takeovers and an over-complex planning system have forced small housebuilders out 鈥� and robbed the industry of its ability to respond to changes in demand
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A tale of two monarchies
鈥淭here is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision,鈥� wrote William James, Henry鈥檚 smarter brother, in his Principle Of Psychology.
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Who's for excellence?
The government has just updated its guidance to its own staff who are involved in procuring buildings. Here's what it says about risk allocation and project team integration
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Eat your heart out, J-Lo
We enter a contract like an A-list marriage, expecting it to end in conflict. But is the industry really so confrontational? Or do lawyers just love a good old barney?