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CommentMarket testing sustainability
Is sustainability going to be the next casualty of the credit crunch? With houses recording their first annual fall for 12 years, and Tony Pidgley describing the crisis as worse than the nineties, it鈥檚 hard to imagine consumers squandering their angst on solar panels.
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CommentTender is the blight
There鈥檚 no excuse for bid rigging, but there may be certain facts that explain it. Like, for example, the whole way competition is supposed to work in our industry
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for RMJM
For this week鈥檚 pint we are in the heart of trendy Hoxton in east London, the raw version of architect鈥檚 ghetto Clerkenwell, which lies just to the west.
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Government diktat
The Office of Fair Trading investigation started in 2004 and its statement of objection was published on 17 April 2008. Your leader column (25 April, page 3) guesses how much the the public purse might have been diddled out of.
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Talking ourselves into it
The media hype around the looming recession merely serves to perpetuate the problem.
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Pump it up
Your recent article on the Code for Sustainable Homes (18 April, page 52) makes a good point. There is indeed much confusion around the code and SAP ratings, mostly because, in important areas, the formulae used in SAP are based on historic data and are not up to date with ...
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Extinguish your torch
How long can it be before the gas torch is banned from the flat-roofing industry?
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Shurely shome mishtake
I am led to understand that the glulam option (widely and imaginatively used around the world for swimming pool structures) for the roof structure of the aquatics centre has been rejected in favour of steel 鈥� on grounds of cost! Is this information accurate?
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Sexual politics
Sometimes it鈥檚 hard to be a man. They must use tact when persuading partners not to drive off a cliff and are cruelly judged on the colour of their shirts. Still, at least they don鈥檛 have to give birth鈥�
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CommentUnder pressure
Crazed drunken rants, crushing defeats and public humiliation were rife in a week the construction industry will remember less than fondly. And then there鈥檚 that OFT thing鈥�
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Due diligence: Lambson Fine Chemicals Ltd vs Merlion Capital Housing Ltd
In May 2004, Lambson Fine Chemicals Ltd sold a 40-acre industrial property to Merlion Capital Housing Ltd for 拢12.25m. The property had been used for the manufacture of chemicals since the 1860s. By the late 1940s it was owned by Laporte and used for the manufacture of suphuric acid, sodium ...
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CommentFirst impressions: Projects by Alsop and Cube Design
University of East London student comments on some recent projects shown on the 星空传媒 website
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Wonders & blunders
A tale of two London stations this week 鈥� one a glorious example of what the new can bring to the old, the other a grim warning of what it can take away, says Robert Clark
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CommentWhen the fix is in
There鈥檚 nothing wrong with prequalification in theory. Alas, there鈥檚 no shortage of things wrong with it in practice. Greg Verhoef explains how the system works
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Comment10 years of the Construction Act
Ten years after it became law, the Construction Act is a boisterous, perplexing triumph. Here鈥檚 its biography. Overleaf, Rudi Klein and Dominic Helps add their views, and we hear from one man who went through the mill and survived
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A sunnier picture
I was somewhat bemused by your recent article on the lack of demand for zero-carbon housing (4 April, page 68-71), because it almost completely contradicts our experience of supplying solar photovoltaic systems to homeowners and housebuilders.
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All open and above board
I read with interest Liam Holder鈥檚 letter (4 April, page 38) suggesting that my article on SGS vs Barratt (14 March, page 70) breached some kind of 鈥渁ssumed鈥� confidentiality.Although I acknowledge the general assumption is that adjudication is private and notionally confidential, I have yet to see any law that ...