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Sanitising history
I see you have featured yet another sanitisation of England鈥檚 disappearing industrial heritage (Woodhorn Colliery, 26 August, page 10).
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CommentEntering the dragon
Europe鈥檚 relations with China remained centre stage this week. But in all the furore over bra wars and trouser mountains, it鈥檚 easy to lose sight of the sheer force of the Chinese economy.
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A public challenge
In 1997 Thanet District Council granted outline planning permission for a business park in Ramsgate. The developer had not provided an environmental impact assessment with his planning application nor did the council seem to require one. There was no evidence to indicate what, if any, consideration the council gave to ...
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CommentDear Bill 鈥�
One is an arch defender of the quaint and traditional Dorset village dreamed up by Prince Charles, the other is the architect of south London鈥檚 cutting-edge, solar urbanist community. So what would Michael Mehaffy, director of education at the Prince鈥檚 Foundation, and Bill Dunster find to talk about?
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CommentMove over, Don Quixote
Here鈥檚 the inspiring story of one man鈥檚 extraordinary, insane, visionary quest to attach a small illuminated sign to the side of a listed building
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CommentThe fiddle of fitness
Whether you鈥檙e a building contractor or a pastry-making equipment supplier, the fitness-for-purpose debate rages on 鈥� and it isn鈥檛 getting any easier
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How to run a seven-year marathon
It is crucial that the right procurement methods are put in place to deal with the apportionment of risk in the event of delay and disruption in the run-up to 2012
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Leave law to the lawyers 鈥�
In a recent article, Tony Bingham endorses the initiative to raise the standards of adjudicators by teaching them complex areas of construction law (12 August: Legal).
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鈥� or is it too late?
As Tony has so well described over the past eight years or so, the original idea of the adjudicator being only an enhanced QS/architect/engineer has really gone by the board and there is now a requirement for a proficient handling of matters of law while under pressure.
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Bucks redux
I wrote on 12 August that the competition brief for the 拢60,000 house contest was prescriptive.
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We stand corrected
Your 鈥淚n brief鈥� column (12 August) incorrectly reports a fatality on a Kier Regional site in Kensington during 2004.
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CommentOur lost billions
鈥淎 considerable amount of waste is incurred in the industry as a result of poor logistics,鈥� concluded the Strategic Forum鈥檚 industry report Accelerating Change in 2002. Three years later, we now know roughly how much waste we鈥檙e talking about 鈥� 拢3bn.
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CommentAnti-partisan action
Expert witnesses are meant to be objective, but too often they鈥檙e not. Now that judges have adopted a policy of naming and shaming, all that might change
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Arbitrators do make mistakes
Ellis Baker and Anthony Lavers take issue with a recent article that praised the House of Lords for rejecting an appeal against an arbitration decision
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CommentMargaret鈥檚 mix-up
Margaret Beckett says a central policy of Britain鈥檚 European Union presidency is to cut carbon dioxide emissions. So why is a directive that would actually do that being scrapped?