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Whole-life
The second in 星空传媒's series on occupancy costs compiled by Citex Professional Services looks at learning resource centres today's high-tech equivalent of the traditional library and now an essential part of the service offered by further education establishments.
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Winning ways
The second in a series on marketing looks at how you can optimise your chances of being awarded work by improving your bidding strategy.
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What a performance
The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden has been hitting the headlines since it went on site in 1996: defective design, vandalism, strikes and claims have plagued it. Well, it was never going to be easy imagine trying to do 拢220m of work in a maze the size ...
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A question of human rights
Does the right to adjudication created by the 1996 Construction Act infringe the right to a fair trial enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights? In short, the answer is no.
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Gonks, gifts and guided tours
National Construction Week is back. This time the industry plans to use hands-on events and freebies to convince the media and public that there s more to building than wet concrete.
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A handy little friend to know
Creditors often have to fight it out when a firm becomes insolvent. That is when those who know about Romalpa come into their own.
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Cowboys: what you think
Next week, construction minister Nick Raynsford is expected to launch a massive consultation exercise to find ways to protect homeowners from the menace of cowboy builders.
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Clash points
The insolvency exemption is the most controversial element in the Construction Act. It is unjustifiable, unfair and too wide-ranging in its definition of insolvency. It must go.
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Clash points
No, it must stay why should major contractors bear all the risk? Also, Rudi exaggerates the helplessness of subcontractors to pay-when-paid, as well as the amount of money they may lose.
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Chris Smith
The minister who has to juggle culture, media and sport is bidding to delegate responsibility for architecture to a new champion. Probably just as well, as his portfolio doesn't give him much time to keep up with new buildings.
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China and its supporters
China is the world s biggest building site and its greater openness to outside influence offers opportunities aplenty for UK construction firms enough to make one feel quite giddy.
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Sporting chance
Manchester City Council is refusing to let funding problems scupper its ambitious plans for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Can it win the race?
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Star of the big screen
Many think of Bradford as the grubby embodiment of the thoroughly Yorkshire sentiment, Where there's muck there's brass . Yet Bradford in 1983 confounded its ill-informed detractors by becoming home to a resource that stood for everything that was new, modern, even futuristic: the National Museum of Photography, Film ...
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Appointments
Contractors John Napier has been appointed non-executive deputy chairman of Amey. Henry Boot Developments has appointed Stephen Summerfield development surveyor in its Midlands office. Andrew Gay has joined the main board of Jarvis following the retirement of Terry Simpson. He remains managing director of the Streamline Holdings ...
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Targeting abuse
Institute of Personnel and Development policy adviser Angela Baron on how to spot substance abuse in the workplace and what to do next.
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Sun, sea and service stations
British consultants are moving in on the Spanish leisure facilities construction market, currently as hot as the Mediterranean sun.
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The outsider
Stepping down as a regional director of Bovis to take the helm of a family-run firm is a brave move. But it is one that has left Cliff Bryant feeling supercharged .
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A little lesson in liability
Once the defects liability period of a JCT Minor Works Contract has expired, a client can no longer file a defects claim. That s what one builder thought but the Court of Appeal disagreed.
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Less than zero
Looking behind the headlines of the chancellor s recent budget, there is little to encourage the building industry and some changes, such as those to VAT, may lead to significant extra costs.