Opinion 鈥� Page 518
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星空传媒 meets Hello!
I was disappointed to read your Valentines Day article about couples who met on site (10 February).
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Name and shame
I can understand why you elicit pictures from the readership on safety blunders. The humour makes light reading. Sadly these real-life events often go unreported - at great cost to workers and their families.
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Defending the estate
I would like to compliment you on the article entitled "No more messing about in boats" (17 February), which I found most entertaining.
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A plan submitted
There seems to be much debate and difference of opinion about how to claw back excess profits as a result of granting planning permission (17 February). Is a strategy based on the following a possibility?
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A telling comparison
The bottom line of an editorial in the Daily Telegraph on 4 February asserted that the Healh and Safety Executive should be closed down.
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CommentHow to survive... an office romance
Amaya Lopez offers lovestruck colleagues 1 10-step guide on how to avoid losing your job and breaking hearts.
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CommentCroydon - noted for its breathtaking scenery
Thanks to John Carmichael for this picture of a site in Croydon.
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Under review
This was an application for judicial review of an adjudication decision under the adjudication legislation in Queensland. JJ McDonald & Sons Engineering Pty Ltd (JJ) had entered into a subcontract with CEPM Pty Ltd (CEPM) that required CEPM to supply and install temporary framework, fix and tie the reinforcing steel ...
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CommentLook to Lisbon
The MEPs have just voted on the directive that aims to create a single market in services, but by ditching the 鈥榗ountry of origin' principle they have given in to the protectionists
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CommentKeeping the law in order
The DTI is to draft a bill to amend the construction act. This is a heroic enterprise, but don't forget it's the courts that really decide what the rules mean
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Was it worth it?
A claimant who rejects a defendant's settlement offer had better be sure it can win a bigger sum at trial, otherwise the legal costs could make it all pointless
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CommentTaking power
With the search for a more secure energy supply pointing to a nuclear revival, the building industry must be ready to exploit opportunities when they come
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CommentSixty-six and rising
The Turner Report proposes a national pensions scheme and an increase in the state pension age. Brian Griffiths suggests some points the government might like to consider
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CommentWonders & blunders
Toyshop owner Peter Baldwin, better known as Derek from Corrie, enjoys a night at the Prague opera. What would Mavis say?
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Let's do it for the kids
Am I right to be sceptical about the value of the opinions of Lord Foster, Alec Reed and Sir Cyril Taylor about the new west London city academy? (10 February, page 13)
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No future in nuclear
In response to your "View from the Edge" article (10 February, page 36), yes I do have some ideas on energy use, lots of them. The problem is "the industry" has its own agenda.
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Iron age ramblings 鈥�
As a subscriber to your magazine using my own money, I am disturbed that you have to use up valuable space with the ramblings of Major Contractors Group chairman John Spanswick (25 November, page 40).