Opinion – Page 487

  • Alex Smith
    Comment

    Open sesame

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    WEB WATCH — Desperate for up-to-the-minute construction news and job alerts? Then look no further – access to Ðǿմ«Ã½ magazine’s website is completely free for the next four weeks.

  • Comment

    My favourites

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    This week... Roland Sonnenberg

  • Guss Alexander
    Comment

    Realpolitik

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Gus Alexander The construction industry, like the arms industry, is more concerned with doing the work than with what the work does. So how are we going to persuade it to stop following orders and think?

  • Comment

    Ðǿմ«Ã½ buys a pint...

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    ...for Interior Motives

  • Hansom
    Comment

    The best laid plans

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Rival engineers accidentally lay on parties at the same location, Frank Lampard fails to organise a trip to the zoo and Ðǿմ«Ã½ hacks somehow conspire to win an intelligence test...

  • Dominic Helps
    Comment

    Causing death and saving lives

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    The bill on manslaughter and corporate homicide that is midway through its second reading in parliament must ensure that senior managers can be held personally to account

  • Comment

    Men behaving badly

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    A survey by the Chartered Institute of Ðǿմ«Ã½ reveals that many in construction have a shockingly complacent attitude to corruption – and don’t even realise that certain practices are criminal

  • Comment

    It’s going to be a long, long time

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    STATE YOUR CASE — The latest idea for disposing of nuclear waste is to offer councils financial incentives to bury it in their backyard. But, says Nigel Robson, the progress is measured in decades

  • Prefab, training and materials separation can cut site waste – and so can good signage
    Comment

    Read the signs

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Thanks for the interesting article about waste management (27 October, page 46).

  • Comment

    Shopped

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    When are we going to do something about the shopfitting industry?

  • Comment

    Silent voices

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Regarding your news article on Polish workers (27 October, page 14), I seem to come across many articles concerning the welfare of Eastern European labourers and what they should and shouldn’t have or do.

  • Comment

    Rogers and the Olympic icon

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Isn’t the pessimistic tone of Ðǿմ«Ã½â€™s review of progress on the Olympic stadium a little premature (27 October, page 26)?

  • Comment

    Man from the JCT

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Jeff Brown’s article on JCT 2005 and third-party rights (27 October, page 54) refers to a glaring omission.

  • Comment

    In the detail

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

  • Generous The Golden Lane estate is a grade II-listed scheme that was completed in the mid 1960s and comprises 557 flats and maisonettes. It is located within the Square Mile, of the City of London, adjacent to the Barbican estate
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Eric Parry hails one bucolic estate in the Square Mile, and rails against many, many others, all over the country

  • Comment

    Gay and lusty commoners that will ramp and thrive...

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    BACK ISSUES — October 1945 Sodom and Gomorrah

  • Comment

    Are the Games in trouble already?

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    London’s euphoria at snatching the Olympic Games from the jaws of Paris has been washed away by a steady flow of news stories about the problems of delivery.

  • Comment

    In the red

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    The claimant, Nearfield Ltd was one of six parties to a joint venture agreement dated April 2002. Other parties to the agreement included Lincoln Trust Co (Jersey) Ltd (LTC) and LTC’s offshore nominee, Lincoln Nominees Ltd (LNL); second and first defendants respectively. The agreement was entered into for the purposes ...

  • Alex Smith
    Comment

    Mobile generation

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    WEB WATCH - New phone? Then you’re probably one of a growing band of construction professionals receiving news alerts on the move. Alex Smith reports on our changing relationship to industry news

  • Tarek Merlin
    Comment

    Beside the seaside

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    When cheap flights become a thing of the past, people will once again yearn for good old British seaside resorts. So it’s about time we turned them into places where people might actually want to stay …