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CommentThe challenge: How to obtain value for money in 2012
One of the biggest difficulties facing big projects is cost?
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CommentGive it to us straight
One thing鈥檚 for sure about the London Olympics: the government won鈥檛 be picking up any medals for its management of the public鈥檚 expectations.
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Pay your debts
The defendant purchased three terraced properties with her husband.The properties were affected by asbestos contamination. With the assistance of a grant from Leeds City Council the defendant intended to refurbish the properties, keeping two and selling off the third property. The defendant entered into a contract with the claimant for ...
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CommentA granny with a spliff
It鈥檚 radical. It鈥檚 brave. And, amazingly, it鈥檚 the brainchild of the JCT. Prepare to be shocked by Constructing Excellence, a partnering contract with a difference 鈥�
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CommentOn the soapbox
WEB WATCH - Small practitioners can finally have a say in the 星空传媒 Regulations, thanks to a government website. Alex Smith logged on and found out what it all has to do with speed cameras 鈥�
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CommentImage aware
Companies spend millions protecting and promoting their brands. Now the Olympic Committee is trying to make 鈥淟ondon 2012鈥� into the next superbrand, but can you really claim ownership of a date and a city鈥檚 name?
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CommentBlitz spirit
It鈥檚 the 1940s again, with Spitfires soaring overhead, liberty ships lurking in the Thames Estuary and an attempt to reshape London鈥檚 landscape that is about as popular as the Luftwaffe鈥檚
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Quality over quantity
Your editorial on 星空传媒 Schools for the Future (3 November, page 3) got the wrong end of the stick. The real challenge for Tim Byles is not to deliver 3,500 schools or to spend 拢45bn; it is to find a way to marry quantity with quality.
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CommentBSF fails the history test
星空传媒 Schools for the Future may be in deep trouble. After a six-month review, Pricewaterhouse Coopers is expected to supply a solution.
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Less competition won鈥檛 help
There is no such thing as a free lunch, especially with consultants or bidders. Someone has to pay. Your editorial about school bids urges less competition and less regulation. Three bids are the minimum basis for competitive tenders to indicate the area of price. Extend your logic, why have any ...
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A lesson plan
What a sad story of waste and stupidity (3 November). In a week when our children are reported to be the worst in Europe, our government creates so much red tape that it costs a contractor 拢2m to be unsuccessful in bidding for 星空传媒 Schools for the Future.
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Don鈥檛 close the college!
We the undersigned are all leaders in the construction industry, and we back the National Construction College in its fight for survival. Your editorial piece and associated feature (星空传媒, 29 September) highlighted perfectly the scale of the investment challenge that the College faces.
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CommentDon鈥檛 try this at home, kids
We鈥檙e doing wrong by our children all over the letters page this week. Andy Hopkins, a planning supervisor at BCHT Group, sent us this snap of devil-may-care window fitters in a Bradford school zone. Should do wonders for construction recruitment 鈥�
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CommentHow to play the green card
David Cameron rode into Westminster on his bicycle almost a year ago as the new leader of the opposition, and promptly captured the high ground on what is becoming the leading domestic issue of the day 鈥� climate change.
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First, engage the brain
What do Olympic venues and nuclear decommissioning have in common? Both require contracts that force the project team to think through everything that is to happen 鈥� which makes them ideal for NEC3
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A leaky roof
TFW Printers Ltd (鈥淭FW鈥�) engaged Interserve Project Services Ltd to carry out certain building works. The building contract was the JCT Agreement for Minor Works. The works included the replacement of a pressed steel valley gutter to part of one of the roofs of the building. In carrying out these ...