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CommentThe great divide
Given the importance of school work, contractors need to dedicate much more thought to getting education experts and construction experts to work together
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CommentDetached housing policy
Grant Shapps鈥� plans for the housing market fly in the face of expert opinion and will seriously hinder the recovery
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for EC Harris
It鈥檚 pretty well understood that if you gather any group of English people over a certain age together in any one place for any period of time they鈥檒l start talking about house prices...
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CommentHansom opportunity lost
Chance favours the prepared mind, which is bad news for Grant Shapps, Chris Cheshire, the RIBA press office and the government of the UK 鈥� and very good news for a certain consultant
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Flawed board
James Wates鈥� appointment as chair of the CITB CSkills board (12 February, page 10) has some clear benefits for the sector, and he will bring real strengths to the role
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CommentMind, body and soul
I read the article on 鈥渂roken homes鈥� and Amanda Levete鈥檚 article (22 January, page 20 and page 22) and neither discussed one of the main reasons why we should deliver better homes and workplaces
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You need help
As a quaintly named 鈥渉eritage professional鈥� dealing with 鈥渉eritage assets鈥� and their management, I can understand Simon Tolson鈥檚 frustration with the lack of standard procedure in dealing with historic buildings (5 February, page 47)
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About time
At last someone who spells out clearly what the taxman is doing to the industry (鈥淕overnment burglars鈥�, 5 February, page 3)
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The wranglers
I was interested to read what Ann Minogue had to say concerning lawyers who represent parties in adjudication (22 January, page 51)
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Try to understand
It is sad to see that some Yorkshire authorities are proposing to use a big stick to beat contractors over cover pricing (29 January, page 9)
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Silk bloomers
In the article 鈥淢ind the gaping hole鈥� (5 February, page 20), you say that 鈥淐hris Bolt, the QC who is acting as independent arbiter鈥� threw out Tube Lines鈥� recent 拢327m claim against London Underground
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CommentHave wig, will travel
The increasingly mobile judges of the TCC are happy to do you a trial in the cheapest, most convenient part of the country. But how do you decide where that is?
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Nuclear new-build: Proceed (with caution)
The nuclear new-build programme has a lot to offer, as long as you can navigate the regulatory and contractual minefield surrounding it
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CommentMilking it: Safeway and the OFT
When Safeway was fined by the OFT, it tried to claim its money back from the employees it thought had caused the problems. Might construction companies follow suit?
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No thumbscrews required
How do I 鈥� Getting paid on time can be exceptionally difficult these days. Deborah Primett advises on how to improve your chances 鈥� without resorting to tough-guy tactics
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118 000 a number to remember 鈥� 240 000 a number best forgotten
118,000: The number of new homes that were completed in England in 2009, according to the latest official data.240,000: The number of new homes to be created annually in England from 2016, according to the targets set when Yvette Cooper, Minister for Housing and Planning at the time, announced the ...
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Fewer redundancy in construction, but the future remains bleak on jobs
For the optimists in the construction industry there is much hope to be gleaned from the latest employment figures.Equally for the pessimists there is plenty within the numbers to fret about.So what should we make of the latest batch of labour market numbers that, among other things, show that 163,000 ...
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CommentPhilosophical advice
University spending is vanishing, but that doesn't meant this is another LSC debacle
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RICS sees workload slump deeper in late 2009 - providing more fare for the double-dippers
It鈥檚 tempting to see the latest construction market survey by the surveyors鈥� body RICS as yet more evidence of a likely double dip in construction 鈥� however you want to define that.And I鈥檓 not going to sit here and argue against that possibility.But there is a case for some cautious ...