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Check the expiry
Tesco was understandably peeved when one of its superstores burned down, and it wanted cash back. But was the claim past its sell-by date?
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CommentCruel and usual treatment
You contractors get stroppy when your subbies fail to deliver, but the culprit is often the dodgy, lazy, time-honoured ways of the good old British building industry
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Defective thinking
What do defects have to do with retentions? Nothing. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Sweet Fanny Adams. But just you try telling the government that 鈥�
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Would you like some more money?
Not only are your labour-only subcontractors entitled to holiday pay, but if your arrangements for giving it to them are unclear, you could end up doling out twice
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Bye-bye, Bambi
The Be Collaborative contract is another adorable newborn legal fawn taking its first unsteady steps towards the combine harvester of the construction industry
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Who'll take on apprentices?
I'd like to respond to the news of a new training board (3 October, page 3).
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Fit for a comedy sketch
With reference to Roger Knowles' letter (10 October, page 36) and the rather tired debate over the RICS, may I point out that architects, engineers and solicitors all have their own specialisms yet remain quite content to practise under the generic banner of their profession.
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Show a bit of initiative
I was encouraged by the story "Clarke: Skills council will end need for foreign workers" (3 October, page 13).
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Do one job well
We have been watching several professional organisations agonise over agendas for change for some time now, among them the RICS and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
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Not so special
Your article "The Techmeisters" (26 September, page 74) was either written with tongue firmly in cheek or you fell under the spell of snake oil salesmen intent on cornering a market.
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Hearing you loud and clear
I read your news item about housebuilders being spared the need to test their houses for adequacy of sound resistance (29 August, page 13) and thought, what a shame.
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More to restore 鈥�
I recently watched Restoration on BBC2. Like many, I was both interested and depressed.
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CommentHow can you say that?
The Treasury would have us believe that the PFI can do no wrong. But, as James Nesbit points out, its data makes genuine comparisons impossible
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CommentWonders & blunders
I am tempted to revel in the open spaces in and around the Tate Modern but walk by the Hayward shaking my head
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Good day at the office, dear?
The claimant, Mr Horkulak, had been threatened and humiliated by his manager over a period of some months. Finally, he walked out of his job as a senior managing director in a major broking house in the City of London. He saw his doctor the next day, who put him ...
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Working in harmony
This month, a double issue of Specifier looks at doors and windows and flooring 鈥� and what dynamic sectors they are. Despite a flurry of new rules, architects are still turning out some great pieces of work 鈥� and Tinside Lido in Plymouth is one of them. The project team ...
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Now we are three
The pre-action protocol is three years old. So do we crack open the bubbly 鈥� or keep quiet and hope nobody will mention it? A new survey might help us decide
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CommentThe peacemakers
Dispute resolution boards are supposed to head off problems before they escalate into armed conflict. Question is, how do they do the heading off?
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Give it to me straight
It鈥檚 all very well designing a building whose curves have been inspired by a hippopotamus鈥� backside, but just how does it fit in to our rectilinear urban jungle?