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A whole new division
First person The demands of an athletics stadium and a football stadium are irreconcilable. So why not simply build them in different cities?
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The prize-giving season
First person Forget the tawdry glamour of Miss World; the most up-to-the-minute prizes are being awarded in the construction industry.
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Are we going to be PC?
First person Prime contracting is set to revolutionise procurement in this country. So, why do so few of us know so little about it?
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Just like the movies
Second opinion Construction should stop trying to emulate car manufacturers and take some tips from film-makers.
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Watch the warning signs
First person Builders should be wary of signing contracts with public sector clients that may leave them singing for their money.
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Leaps and bounds
First person Like Laing, small contractors should have the courage to admit that they have been wrong and change the way they operate.
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No place like dome
First person Three cheers for the project team that turned a Greenwich mudpile into an international icon – on time and to budget.
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Balancing act
First person We find it acceptable to cover the countryside in spec housing, but disturb wildlife on a major work programme? Never.
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Labour’s ‘to do’ list
In its third parliamentary session, Labour must tackle three issues close to the hearts of the industry and the electorate.
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The man for the job
A big man with big ideas, new RIBA president Marco Goldschmied is going to give architecture the shake-up it needs.
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How to come a cropper
The Civil Procedure Rules make new demands on expert witnesses. Here's the story of one expert who didn't seem to appreciate that – and what Lord Woolf had to say about it.
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Why should banks be secure?
What can you do when the firm that's just taken 拢10k of goods from you goes belly-up? The answer is: not much – after the bank's receiver has made sure the bank gets its cash back. That may be about to change.
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Scottish internationals
Other than at Murrayfield, a contest in Scotland may be subject to the UN's regime of international commercial arbitration – which could actually make it easier.
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Conservative measures
Good riddance to John Major’s Tory government; a warm welcome to New Labour’s new conservatism.
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All aboard
First person It’s better to travel hopefully than to arrive, so here’s hoping the revamps of Manchester Piccadilly and Westminster Tube go well.
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Design faults
First person So, architects are still nursing their bruised egos, are they? Perhaps they should take a look around and buck up their ideas.
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Egan 脿 la carte
The Egan message may be all very well for the big boys of construction, but does it have any relevance to smaller firms?
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Creative tension
What will Prescott need to match Egan's vorsprung durch Technik with Rogers' huggy togetherness? A good imagination, perhaps.
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Pet adjudicators
Tempting though it is to ensure that you get a tame adjudicator by writing their name into the contract document, you might be arming your opponent with a weapon of last resort.
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A matter of faith
A duty of good faith is increasingly being expressed or implied in consultants' contracts and could affect all aspects of their appointment but what exactly does it entail?