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Media plays down housing crisis - 160,000 house building jobs to go
Not a headline you might expect. And let's hope the house building industry doesn't shed 160,000 jobs, but it is looking ever more likely.First let's get one thing out of the way. The media is blamed for hyping the crisis we now find ourselves in. To hold that view is ...
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CommentEastern promises
The UK鈥檚 own history makes it uniquely placed to partner China in transforming old industries and leading the world in putting eco principles into practice, says John Prescott
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Withholding notices: Aedas Architects vs Skanska Construction UK
This dispute arose out of works done on contracts to renovate some schools in Midlothian. The claimant sought periodical payments but was met with refusal because the Defendant claimed that it had large and on-going contra set-offs which were much more than what the claimant was pursuing.The claimant argued ...
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for Atkins, Shanghai
Paul Rice associate director, Atkins ShanghaiStuart Macdonald, 星空传媒 鈥� and 20 drunken Australian embassy staff and guests
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CommentOnly yourselves to blame
Managers found guilty of causing death by a 'gross breach' of care are liable to criminal conviction, but the Corporate Manslaughter act is clear on how to avoid a prosecution
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Fool's gold
If Michael Gove gets into government, he鈥檒l have to learn pretty quick that we haven鈥檛 had a system based on land-use planning since 2004.
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A cynic writes 鈥�
The government claims it will make a 拢100bn investment in wind power over 12 years (26 June, www.building.co.uk).
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Discrimination is bad
Regarding Harriet Harman鈥檚 plans for positive discrimination (26 June, www.building.co.uk), many of these laws are reasonable but surely the government is allowing ethnic minorities the opportunity to claim racial discrimination if a white person with a similar set of skills and qualifications is selected for a position that they have ...
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Discrimination is good
There is currently a great deal of misinformation in the press about the review of the Association of British Insurers鈥� (ABI) guidance document, Fire Performance of Sandwich Panel Systems.
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CommentMy digital life: Tim Broyd
Tim Broyd is an online shopaholic. The web is his clothes store, television, supermarket, noticeboard, travel agent and, most importantly, a refuge for the hopelessly car-obsessed.
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CommentHansom: Spooky
Lovesick phantoms, a paranormal ability to rewrite the past and a man who can talk to the animals (to the animals) 鈥� recently, construction has been getting decidedly weird
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CommentChina goes to town
China is ravenous for British expertise. And no wonder: in 20 years鈥� time it could account for more than half of the global market for construction services
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CommentChongqing express
You may never have heard of it, but the Chinese city of Chongqing is the largest on the planet. What鈥檚 more, says Li Shirong, it鈥檚 growing at a hell of a rate
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CommentWebmaster review: Beijing Olympics website
Surf your way to en.beijing2008.cn, then see if you agree with our analysis of the website for the Beijing Olympics
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CommentWonders & blunders
IM Pei鈥檚 Suzhou Museum is a masterly modern take on Chinese traditional buildings, says Pak Hung Lai, whereas the Shanghai Convention Centre is just, well, balls
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Housing rescue plan? What housing rescue plan?
Caroline Flint has just announced the much talked of rescue plan for the housing market - couched in terms of affordable housing, but in essence an attempt to bolster the crumbling house building sector.It has been welcomed by the National Housing Federation, so it must be good. And I am ...
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If this is recession - here's what not to do
Given the slew of shocking data and the seemingly inevitable fate that awaits construction I thought it worthwhile casting my mind back to the horrors of the early 1990s and to try to recall the mistakes firms made in reacting to recession.So here is my: Top five mistakes in a ...
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If this is not recession - what is?
However much you may have been expecting it, the pace of bad news is overwhelming. Back to back, undiluted and dismal.The buyers body, CIPS, today reports on construction and unsurprisingly, given the current wave of shocking statistics, its Purchasing Managers Index for the industry plunged to unchartered depths - from ...
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Workload and job prospects crash, confidence plummets - RICS
A dramatic reversal of fortunes saw confidence in the future of construction workload plunge in the second quarter of this year to the lowest level ever recorded by the chartered surveyors body RICS.The figures suggest that more than 11 years of almost uninterrupted growth has come to a shuddering halt, ...