Opinion – Page 297
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Love the one you're with
As is fitting for the week of Saint Valentine, relationships have been hotting up in the industry. From sharing a romantic dinner a deux, to tackling the opposition, to swapping saliva, Cupid’s been busy!
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England sees 102,830 new homes built in 2010 – we built more in 1875
In some parts of the country rates of housebuilding has fallen by more than half
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Crossrail will breath life into Woolwich
A landmark £100m deal between Berkeley Homes and Crossrail will put Woolwich on the map
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Duty of care in tort: James Andrew Robinson vs P.E. Jones
The case examines the extent to which building contractors owe duties of care in tort to their clients alongside their contractual duties.
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A bad time to bank on cutting costs to make up for cut-price bidding
Contractors bidding low to win work are playing a dangerous game
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West Ham finally wins its Spurs
West Ham have beaten Tottenham in the race for post-Games tenancy of the Olympic stadium. What does the future for the stadium hold and what lessons can be learned from the bidding process?
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2010 saw fastest growth since the 1980s boom – but we are on the way down again
With public sector spending set to dive, there is little sign that the private sector is picking up
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Nervy investors put brakes on office market
It's a good time to build offices at the moment - if only you can get the finance
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Family contractors: Adapt or die
Willmott Dixon shows it’s not good enough just to sit still
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Eaga looks good for Carillion
Carillion looks to have bought the right firm, at the right time, for the right price.
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1.2 million more dwellings than households – is that right?
There are sound reasons why we need more dwellings than households
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Spurs' lost chance?
Tottentham Hotspur’s plans for the Olympic stadium may come to naught today
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Parallel universe
The Construction Act should have been the death of pay when paid, but here’s a wheeze that tries to get round it. It goes like this: you lend me the money I owe you until I get paid
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Hansom: The right angle
According to the PRs it’s been another brilliant week for the construction industry - so please ignore the hints of commercial bias, the whiffs of pub quiz favouritism and accusations of slanted journalism
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Open mike: Stop the world – I want to get off
Most architects find new work through word of mouth. So the more circles you move in, the more people will talk – and the dizzier you’ll become
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ǿմý buys a pint … for DouglasWood
This week, ǿմý’s pint buying is over-shadowed by a football match
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Legal dispute
It is interesting to read Ann Minogue’s “Can we be of any assistance?” (21 January, page 49). Minogue picks up on the point that adjudicators rarely appoint lawyers to advise on the law.
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Bad behaviour
It’s stories like the one about Apollo undercutting its rivals (28 January, page 10) that have the clients running to secure partnering frameworks with contractors instead
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Designed to fail
Rudi Klein (28 January, page 53) writes about the problems caused by a lack of risk management during the design process. Could such problems have also been compounded by the apparent demise of the bill of quantities?
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