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CommentTop 25 architect websites: Flash blindness
Do you glaze over every time you have to navigate through endless animations on architects鈥� websites? Well, you鈥檙e not alone, says website expert Martin Hornagold
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CommentHansom Eye candy
This week, why the Candy brothers鈥� 拢1bn Fitzrovia scheme is a no-no, subcontractors are put in their place and sex, politics and housing policy become strangely conjoined
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for Constructing Excellence
The Phoenix isn鈥檛 always this busy on a Tuesday night in January, apparently. Despite the markets going into freefall a few hours earlier, every chair and table in the room is taken and it鈥檚 standing room only at the bar.
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CommentThat was then, this is now
So once the project team have finished sighing with relief, no doubt their chests will swell with pride: Terminal 5 has come in on time and to budget.
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The softly, softly approach
Regarding the article 鈥淗ousebuilders scramble to tackle credit crunch crisis鈥� (18 January, page 9), while it is right that all organisations 鈥� clients, housebuilders, local authorities 鈥� have a focus on cost reduction, it is important to consider how best to go about it.
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No excuses
The government has taken considerable flak for its plans to reduce Health and Safety Executive (HSE) funding, but the construction industry mustn鈥檛 this as an excuse for rising accident and death rates. After all, this is an industry-wide responsibility.
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What鈥檚 changed?
Having just read an article by Rupert Choat (16 November, page 80), my mind returned to a report compiled by the late John Huxtable.
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No company for QSs
Further to Jon De Maria鈥檚 assumption that both he and the cockroaches will be left standing after an apocalypse (Inbox, 25 January, page 30), I regret to inform him that if the apocalypse is of the nuclear type, he will surely be standing alone.
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CommentIt鈥檚 just not good enough
Public authorities have to treat all bidders with perfect impartiality. As perfection is quite a high standard to meet, many are judged wanting. Like this client here 鈥�
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CommentLiving in harmony
The Olympic park can be completed on time and without conflict between the sectors 鈥� but the strategies to ensure good relations must be sorted now.
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CommentA tale of three cities
Rome, Mumbai and Marrakesh each have much to tell us about how cities work, how they fail and the possibilities they offer to those who live in them.
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CommentThe RIBA bites back
Open mike聽鈥� Shortly before Christmas, two of our legal columnists wrote unkind words about the RIBA鈥檚 new standard conditions for hiring an architect. Here, the editor offers a critique of his own
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Ringway Infrastructure Services Ltd vs Vauxhall Motors Ltd
The claimant applied for summary judgment to enforce a decision of an adjudicator. The contract between the parties was or incorporated the JCT Standard Form of 星空传媒 Contract with Contractor鈥檚 Design 1998 Edition, incorporating amendments 1-5. The claimant was employed to construct a vehicle distribution centre to carry out various ...
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CommentI鈥檒l get you later
This is the story of a client that decided to sue a contractor but not its consultants. Then it changed its mind and went after them, too. The consultants claimed that this was abuse of process 鈥� but were they right?
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Know your limits
The Law Commission wants a rethink of the law on limitations and this year you are invited to comment on the proposals. So here鈥檚 what they鈥檙e about鈥�
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CommentThe lawyers鈥� playground
There have been more than 300 court decisions that 鈥榗larify鈥� the meaning of the Construction Act. The result is that only our learned friends really understand what the rules are
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CommentWeb watch 鈥� Golden nuggets
If you want the latest environmental information in easily digestible, bite-sized chunks, you really should log on to 星空传媒鈥檚 sustainability channel. Phil Clark explains why