Opinion 鈥� Page 459
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Equity can aid housing crisis
The government has finally acknowledged that the crisis in affordable housing will have disastrous repercussions for the economy (July 27, page 20).
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Missive attack
I always enjoy reading 星空传媒, not only because it contains interesting features and news, but because it is very clearly laid out and easy on the eye.
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Third time unlucky
HG Construction Limited was engaged as contractor by Ashwell Homes (East Anglia) Limited for the development of new housing in Cambridgeshire. The contract was based on the JCT Standard Form of 星空传媒 Contract With Contractor鈥檚 Design (1998 Edition). The contract provided for sectional completion. Disputes arose and there were four ...
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Put it in writing
The claimant, Mott MacDonald Ltd (MM), is a specialist construction engineering consultant. It undertook a variety of engineering services for the defendant, property developer London & Regional Properties Ltd (LRP) in relation to the phase 2 infrastructure works for a business park at Park Royal, London. These services, which included ...
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CommentSupreme indifference
The construction industry has largely ignored the JCT鈥檚 prime cost contract, largely because it doesn鈥檛 do prime cost procurement. But that may change in the near future 鈥�
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CommentHere鈥檚 the pitch
Our industry will never have the skills or resources to communicate to a mass audience in the way of a great film director like Sydney Pollack, but that doesn鈥檛 mean we can鈥檛 learn a trick or two ...
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CommentPolicies for a rainy day
In hindsight, Yvette Cooper probably wishes she鈥檇 waited for a break in the weather before launching her green paper.
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CommentYou bought it, you pay for it
Question: When does a main contractor have to pay a subcontractor for work that it hasn鈥檛 done? Answer: When it agreed a fixed-price lump sum contract based on issued drawings 鈥�
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Comment星空传媒 windmills in Cloud Cuckoo Land
Open mike 鈥斅燭he GLA wants office buildings to generate 20% of the energy they use. The only problem with this, says Richard Kauntze, is it can鈥檛 be done. So here鈥檚 a proposal that will work
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What鈥檚 the best way to build a tower?
Tall buildings are shooting up all over Britain. This raises the question: which procurement route should you use to construct them? Here鈥檚 the first of two articles on this very question
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Private investigations
Construction is a hotbed of malpractice and graft, so there鈥檚 a good chance your company will be affected. If so, how do you find out whodunnit? Angus Darroch-Warren explains
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CommentWonders & blunders
Alistair Barr picks two City columns, one a multitalented 17th-century marvel, the other a bang-up-to date failure of nerve and imagination
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CommentSound advice
Edinburgh academics explain why you should listen to your building materials before using them, plus Ed Balls鈥� guide to parenting and the JFK approach to dealing with specialist contractors
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Heres a plan
The recently announced Office of Fair Trading study into the UK housebuilding industry highlights two areas of concern: land supply and planning.
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Gordon鈥檚 first steps
Housing reform was rightly the centrepiece of the legislative programme unveiled by Gordon Brown.
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At the forum
Your article on the handover of the chairmanship of the Strategic Forum (6 July, page 36) refers to 鈥渢he three core member bodies鈥� of the forum.
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Quarry House
The caption accompanying the picture of Quarry House (13 July, page 37) indicates that it was designed by Sir Terry Farrell.