Opinion 鈥� Page 527
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Mall mauling
I am compelled to comment on the latest addition to the infamous Arndale Centre by Chapman Taylor (21 October).
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Mining other rich seams
I am writing in reponse to Malcolm Taylor鈥檚 etter on the Woodhorn Colliery in Northumberland (9 September).
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Help for Gus
Of course the answer to Gus Alexander鈥檚 problem with the lowest price tender (28 October) would be for the client to employ a quantity surveyor at the outset of the project.
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The rise and rise of consultation
Jon Rouse sensibly sees the pursuit of consensus through interminable consultation as a failure of nerve among those politically or professionally charged with planning (30 September). This serves as an apology from the man who established the corrosive influence of the unelected CABE.
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What鈥檚 it worth?
The claimants were trustees of a settlement. They owned a property comprising a number of shops and flats. The primary purpose of the trust was to provide income rather than capital growth.The claimants sought to obtain vacant possession of the individual flats with a view to re-letting them on short-term ...
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CommentOpen Mike: Wrong turnings
David Trench, the project director on the Millennium Dome, knows from experience what happens when people stray too far from a project鈥檚 initial raison d鈥櫭猼re
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CommentLook to the skies
We need to forget about cheap houses and luxury riverside apartments and start building high quality high rise, says the latest column from our graduate panel
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CommentDouble your risk
A fitter鈥檚 mate who stepped on some ductwork in a Tyneside factory inadvertently overturned 200 years of legal tradition 鈥� and greatly increased contractors鈥� liability
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Hold your horses
It was interesting to note Christopher Linnett鈥檚 comments on the increasingly short periods of time being allowed for contractors to tender for design-and-build enquiries (14 October).
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If you can鈥檛 stand the heat 鈥�
Perhaps, as Mr Linnett considers it bad practice to tender within such periods, he should stop working in the hot kitchen and retire to the dining room immediately.As a front-line contractor鈥檚 estimator, I鈥檓 the first to agree that a contractor鈥檚 bid team is up against it when undertaking such a ...
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The race still running
Your article 鈥淔our housebuilders pull out of 鈥榦nerous鈥� grant process鈥� (28 October, page 22) took a somewhat sensational line and missed at least some of the point as a result. Opening bidding to private developers for the first time was always going to be about testing the market. We expected ...
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Completion equals confidence
Congratulations to Trevor Hursthouse for defending the indefensible 鈥� that is, retentions 鈥� (7 October) but I suppose as chairman of the Specialist Engineering Contractors鈥� Group he had no alternative.
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Credit control where it鈥檚 due
Colin Harding and fellow travellers should remember one important fact before attempting to have retentions outlawed: contractors usually get paid 95% or 97% of work done to date in advance of completion, once a month.
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CommentTales from the pit
Our thanks to George Fordyce, head of engineering policy at the National Home 星空传媒 Council, for sharing this fine example of ladder craft.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Des Lynam analyses the performance of two very different domes 鈥� and as usual, Italy scores big points while England gets a red card 鈥�