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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for the Timber Trade Federation
It must be thirsty work at the Timber Trade Federation. Their chosen watering hole is directly opposite their front door in Store Street, just off Tottenham Court Road.
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CommentHansom: Takes all sorts
What do pukka builders, tap-dancing penguins, Russell Crowe and the Grand National have in common? Yep, you guessed it: they all appear in this week鈥檚 Hansom鈥� Clever, isn鈥檛 it?
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Base rate cut provides some relief as property-related orders slide
The Bank of England's much expected decision to cut interest rates by 0.25% to 5% will provide a little short-term relief to worried managements within the construction and property sectors - although there will have been many crossed-fingered directors hoping for a 50 basis point cut.And certainly the contracting fraternity ...
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Will UK construction follow the US into recession?
The latest construction research note from the surveyors' trade body RICS takes an interesting look at the current state of the US and UK construction sectors. The underlying question RICS asks is whether the UK industry will follow the US into a recession.The headline grabbing data from the US are ...
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Halifax house price figures show biggest drop since 1992
As I speculated late last month there was a potentially nasty blow in the pipeline for the sales teams of house builders and at estate agents when the Halifax house price index was published.Well the figures have been published and show a monthly fall of 2.5%, the fastest since September ...
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for Cole Thompson Anders
These four architects from a tiny 15-strong practice in sleepy Twickenham on the fringe of west London are as multinational as any turbo-charged celeb practice in the centre.
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CommentWeb watch 鈥� And so it spreads
Since we observed a few weeks ago that architects were suffering from the Flash bug, one perfectly healthy HTML site seems to have been infected.
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Claim to enforce an adjudication: Cantillon Ltd vs Urvasco Ltd
This was a claim to enforce an adjudication decision. The decision allowed Cantillon Ltd 拢391,565.50 plus VAT and one fifth of this decision related to Cantillon鈥檚 claim for 13 weeks extension of time. Cantillon had submitted two extension of time claims to adjudication, one for 16 weeks and one ...
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CommentPromises, promises
The Olympic project will be built by small businesses, so let鈥檚 have some genuine 鈥榗onstruction commitments鈥� to allow them to get on with the job
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The death sentence is getting tougher
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act comes into force on Sunday. Best to know what it entails now
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Comment1666 and all that
A month after the Great Fire, King Charles was keen for the Reconstruction Commission to get to grips with sustainability as part of a rebranding strategy going forward. Sir Christopher Wren takes up the story 鈥�
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Style or substance?
To quote your article on the industry鈥檚 websites (20 March, pages 40-41): 鈥淔lash is the best way to show images because it uses mathmatical formulae to draw graphics very quickly, while HTML draws images one pixel at a time.鈥�
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Behind closed doors
I was peturbed to read Peter English鈥檚 article about a case that he said demonstrated that contractors need not always agree to give clients discounts (14 March, page 70).
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Too little, too late
Admirable though the issue of regulations for sustainable homes is, I fear it is all a little too late when one considers the vast amounts of energy wasted in other locations.
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Collective blunders
My heart sinks each time a body rushes to tell us that it is setting up a committee to show how refurbishment or anything else should be done, like Kate Symons of BRE does in her column (28 March, page 41).
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CommentWonders & blunders
The decorative, anti-modernist efforts of Goodhart-Rendel excite Alan Powers but the patterned facade of the Blue Fin 星空传媒 is a damp squib
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CommentHansom BAA, humbug!
Is there really anything more to be said about last week鈥檚 fiasco at Heathrow鈥檚 T5? You bet there is. But it鈥檚 not all bad news and schadenfreude: we put on some light entertainment for you, too
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