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CommentSickness or health
To the RIBA conference in Venice, where we encounter, if not death, then at least disease and depression, while closer to home an industry leader feels distinctly queasy on a site visit 鈥�
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CommentDo we have to pay up?
LEGAL AID - A contractor has withheld 拢18k and is claiming a further 拢60k from the subbie because the project did not meet practical completion. Is there any way to dismiss the claim?
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CommentGangster rap
SECURITY ALERT - Gangmasters supply illegal construction workers as well as cockle pickers. And a new act is just part of a government crackdown on their activities
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A matter of life and death
Your blog about Al Gore鈥檚 recent film, An Inconvenient Truth (13 October), was entertaining but somewhat flippant. As last year鈥檚 Sustainability Leader award winner, I feel duty-bound to comment.
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CommentMessage for Margaret
In response to your interview with construction minister Margaret Hodge (20 October, page 30) 鈥� I would like to see her position the industry so that a career in construction is seen as desirable for schoolgirls and hope that we can soon read the headline in Ray O鈥橰ourke鈥檚 inimitable style, ...
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Foul mouthed
Am I the only person who is appalled at the profanities expressed in your article concerning the future of the Office of Government Commerce (20 October, page 28)? In an industry that has been trying hard to improve its public image in the face of constant hostility in the popular ...
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Please don鈥檛 go
I am writing regarding your article (20 October, page 11) that says the RICS is considering selling its data and research arm, the 星空传媒 Cost Information Service (BCIS).
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Virtual reality
I would like to allay Darryl Nash鈥檚 concern voiced in your Specifier section (20 October) that it is challenging for architects to get sufficient building services knowledge to operate the more sophisticated Part L 2006 compliance software tools.
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CommentDressed for success
Thanks to Bryan Imbery for this shot of a Portuguese painter whose choice of head and footwear are almost as impressive as the quality of his edging 鈥�
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CommentA letter from Northamptonshire
Shadow minister Tim Boswell shares his thoughts on how to go about building more houses (and roads, schools, clinics) in his parliamentary constituency 鈥�
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CommentWonders & blunders
David Snell, the king of the self-builders, shares his pearls of bungalow wisdom and calls for the cramped modern family house to carry a health warning
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CommentKings of the road
Far from the archetypal lecherous, tattooed, road-hogs, Stuart Macdonald finds that white van men are actually eco-friendly, diet-conscious, spiritually fulfilled Casanovas
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A binding decision
The case of William Verry Ltd vs The Mayor and Burgesses of The London Borough of Camden concerned the enforcement of an adjudicator鈥檚 decision, but raises the issue of the status of an adjudicator鈥檚 decision as a result of the operation of the final certificate provisions in the contract and ...
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CommentWhat鈥檚 right is right
The main lesson of Technotrade鈥檚 well-documented attempt to use a legal technicality to minimise its liability to a client warns us all of the need to be vigilant
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CommentMIPIM flies east
MIPIM Asia might not measure up to MIPIM France, but it鈥檚 far less stuck up and people actually talk to each other. Just a shame the UK stand was so dismal