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Inbox: Universally challenged
This week, our readers take issue with 鈥檆hampagne-drinking鈥� architects, plans to cut the cost of skyscrapers and the industry鈥檚 approach to labour and skills
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CommentWe鈥檙e not a bunch of incompetents
UK managers have been in the firing line of late, but the Olympics will be a great opportunity to show off our skills - and building information modelling could help us do that
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CommentWonders and Blunders with Su Butcher
Su Butcher loves everything about Ipswich鈥檚 Willis 星空传媒, even down to the swimming pool, but gets exercised about the damp squib that is the 2012 aquatics centre
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CommentEyewitness: Egyptians won their revolution, now they want more
Launching our online series of first hand accounts from trouble spots around the world, construction lawyer Kate Orviss gives her impressions of the mood after the fall of Mubarak
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CommentLow-carbon plan a reality with Prisk on board
With Mark Prisk co-chairing new Green Construction Board there are high hopes for a cross-industry low-carbon action plan
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CommentAnother step on the long march to improving construction
Construction Excellence's new report on collaboration right focuses on the building's end purpose rather than the actual building itself
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CommentA quick guide to challenging the enforcement of an adjudicator's decision
Step-by-step tips on resisting an enforcement and challenging a decision
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CommentWe鈥檝e done it all before
Paul Morrell鈥檚 construction strategy? Looks familiar to our QS blogger
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CommentConstruction output figures in the dock: the case for the defence
The ONS makes its defence but still leaves questions unanswered
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CommentConstruction output figures in the dock: the case for the defence
Government statisticians shed more light on how they collect construction data
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CommentJones vs Kaney: Expert witnesses lose immunity from suit
The Supreme Court abolished the immunity from suit for breach of duty that expert witnesses previously enjoyed in relation to their participation in legal proceedings
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CommentMaking a virtue of necessity
The government鈥檚 Construction Strategy has led some to ask what鈥檚 different this time round. But they forget that until now the industry hasn鈥檛 changed because it hasn鈥檛 had to
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CommentLord Sugar incurs the wrath of engineers
Engineers in uproar following Lord Sugar鈥檚 disparaging comment on The Apprentice
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CommentTaking the measure of it
If we don鈥檛 know how a building is performing, how can we know if we are reducing its energy use? Display energy certificates for commercial buildings are a start
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CommentWeighty matters
Construction costs, share prices and mergers are just some of the subjects tackled in this week鈥檚 round-up. Who says I can鈥檛 be serious?
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Bank on this
Money pervades readers鈥� thoughts this week, as they ponder project costs and value for money, whether suicide bids ever pay off, banks not lending - and what does zero mean, anyway?
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CommentLawyers just don't NEC3's choice of words
A lawyer has just won a prize for a paper that challenges the NEC evangelists. You don鈥檛 have to like it, just read it. Then you too can be the judge
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Foreign intelligence: Advice on international arbitration
To avoid expensive rows international contracts need well drafted dispute resolution clauses. Here are some wise steps to take if arbitration is one option you want to try
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