Opinion – Page 442

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    A fledgling workforce

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    David Cameron’s back to work initiative, raises the memory of the Leeds council community programme of the eighties.

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    In the detail

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?

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    Top 50 contractor websites: Web watch — Restricted access

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    ǿմý.co.uk’s survey of the top 50 contractors revealed that many of the biggest names in the industry are failing to make their websites accessible to all users.

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    My favourites … Simon Cheshire

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    This week

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    Stripped for part

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    We aim to bring you the best bits of the week’s drinks parties, Olympic gossip and satellite TV at a knock-down price. And if you’re lucky we’ll throw in a 10ft wind turbine, no questions asked …

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    ǿմý buys juices and coffees … for CBRE

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Going out for a drink with a trio of property consultants is not normally an engagement one expects to return home sober from, but it seems 2008 is very different from 2007. Or perhaps the first Monday in January is just not the occasion for flamboyant excess.

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    It’s yesterday once more

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Sir John Egan must have felt a bit like Detective Inspector Sam Tyler from Life on Mars when he first encountered the 1998-era construction industry, filled as it was with firms dressed in metaphorical kipper ties and brown leather jackets who weren’t afraid to cut a few corners to get ...

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    Web watch — Culture clashes

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    When you suddenly become one of the great cities of Europe, there are always going to be a few doubters. Alex Smith reports on the bloggers putting a damper on Liverpool’s moment of glory

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    My Liverpool wonders and blunders with Roger McGough

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Roger McGough knows he’s home when he sees the Royal Liver ǿմý, but the Radio City Tower makes him want to take the next ferry out

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    My favourites … Sophie Eastwood

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

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  • Inspirational The grade II-listed Blackburne House, in the Hope Street district of Liverpool, was built in the 18th century and was used as a school until 1987. It is now a training centre for women.
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    My Liverpool wonders and blunders with Edwina Currie

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Edwina Currie fondly remembers the Victorian splendour of her old school – in the days before she had to put up with grim government office blocks

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    Suspended sentences

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Chris Addison If you held a Mancunian upside down until he thought of something nice to say about Liverpool, what might he come up with? Well, here’s one we dangled earlier

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    Say you’ll be there

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    At Candy & Candy’s new luxury development in Chelsea, at Heathrow’s Terminal 6, at the White House with America’s wannabe president-cum-architect or in Alderley Edge where eerie events are afoot …

  • Rachel Barnes
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    CIC's consultants agreement: You stand here and hold this

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    The Construction Industry Council’s full agreement for appointing consultants has done the industry, and its clients, a great service by explaining just who is supposed to do what, when

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    Who’s looking out for whom?

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Christopher Hill A client should be able to rubber-stamp a consultant’s work without checking it, but if the consultant has relied on inaccurate information from the client they may be left in an invidious position

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    JCT Framework Agreement: Same again? Try the 2007 vintage

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Many looked forward to the birth of the JCT Framework Agreement 2005 but were disappointed by the reality, says Hillary Cohen. The 2007 version is an altogether better bet

  • Awe-inspiring Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral is visible for miles around the city. The design competition was won by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1906 when he was just 22.
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    My Liverpool wonders and blunders with Janice Long

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Disc jockey Janice Long declares the Anglican cathedral an all-time classic, but consigns the front of Lime Street station to the bargain bin

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    The plane truth

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Your reader’s concern about the pitfalls of constructing a school around two 120-year-old plane trees (23 November, page 38) mirrors those of the client and design team at the outset of the project four years ago, but a great amount of consideration went into ensuring the continuing health of the ...

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    Terrorism and you

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    The prime minister recently suggested a need for architects to help “design out” terrorist opportunities.