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CommentWonders & blunders
Michael Ankers reflects on two faces of construction 鈥� one beaming from ear to ear, the other snarling like a sheep-killing dog
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Adjudication on the home front
The employers were Mr Legg and Ms Carver, the owners of a house at 188a Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale, London. An architect prepared drawings and a specification for the proposed refurbishment works to the property. The employers were residential occupiers for the purposes of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration ...
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Massive retaliation
Recent changes to the Enterprise Act mean that anyone involved in forming a cartel will face crippling fines, and individual managers could get five years in prison
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For richer, for poorer
Living with your project partner is about as blissfully straightforward as living with the other kind. But, as you mother would say, you've got to work at making it work
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Home truths in Lijnbaan
The RIBA has just taken itself off to Rotterdam to work out what regeneration's all about. And if you think it's a certain city's loft apartments, you'd be much mistaken
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CommentMirror, mirror on the wall
You may think you're the fairest adjudicator of them all, but if an informed outsider thinks different, you could find yourself being cut down to size
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We're depending on you
As third parties continue to bolster their rights, a word of warning: beware who might rely on your work. And if you exclude liability, be fair about it
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Back to the drawing board
In response to the discussion on architects' education (4 July, pages 40-41), both the skills acquired and their role in the building team, there needs to be more emphasis on the process of design and construction.
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Is anybody out there?
We whole-heartedly agree with Mr Perry's letter (11 April, page 34) about partnering and its existence as a business philosophy only.
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Christmas in the Caucasus
Is Tony Bingham Armenian? I ask because in his article on the case of Orange EBS Ltd vs ABB Ltd ("Ah-ha!!!" 13 June, page 50) he seems to treat Christmas as falling on 6 January.
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Myopic surveyors
I read with some amusement GJ Davey's response to the RICS fees debate (20 June, page 37) stating that the proposal was hidden within the AGM literature.
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The real experts
Having had the unenviable experience of referring a final account dispute to a lawyer adjudicator when a quantity surveyor would clearly have been appropriate, I have to question the method of selection by adjudicator nominating bodies.
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What do you expect?
After reading your disturbing article on mental health in the construction industry it makes me wonder how the likes of John Prescott and Sir John Egan are going to recruit people for the industry (27 June, pages 38-43).
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An alternative 2033 vision
Congratulations on reaching your 160th birthday and on the excellent supplement. Your visions of the future are both entertaining and challenging 鈥� but one thing grated on me.
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The price of success
I couldn't agree more with the column by John Smith (27 June, page 34).
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Glazed and confused
Terracotta glazing is enjoying a revival. It was used extensively at the beginning of the last century, and is proving popular at the start of the 21st. Specifying it is not always straightforward, though, as architect Kohn Pederson Fox found out when it tried to recreate an 80-year-old mottled glaze ...
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When a spade's not a spade
If a subcontractor delays your project, you may argue that they were 'nominated' rather than 'domestic'. Forget labels 鈥� it's the way they were appointed that counts