All Comment articles – Page 349
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CommentEngineering courses: Get real
Engineering courses give students a great theoretical grounding but to foster creative minds we need an earlier emphasis on encountering real life
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Design defects: Careful what you claim
It’s a tough claims market out there with insurers taking a strict approach to the policy wording. Contractors should think twice before they splash out to resolve a design defect
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CommentInfrastructure: A thing of beauty?
Infrastructure can be seen everywhere so it’s a shame it’s often so ugly. Let’s hope for some inspired entries in the energy department’s competition to update the UK’s pylons
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CommentWonders & blunders with Annabella Nassetti
Gaudí’s Sagrada Família has been a century in the building but still Annabella Nassetti would like to knock it down and start again. Thank heavens for La Pedrera, a monument that moves
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CommentProcure 21+: The £800m typo
The government set construction’s blood pressure rising recently by seeming to announce a sharp drop in funds for Procure21+. In fact, the life support system isn’t about to be turned off. Katie Puckett reports on how a tiny error shook the flagship health framework
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CommentRICS sees some positive signs in the private sector, but it's London and South-east driven
There are some positives in the latest survey but don’t get too excited until you read all the figures
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CommentMarketing products: Are you adding value?
How can you make your businesss stand out? And what’s the difference between adding value and just adding stuff
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CommentMarkit/CIPS survey suggests solid growth in construction in July, was growth that solid?
But there is scope for this survey to be at variance with official data and other trade surveys
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CommentThe National Planning Policy Framework: Get building
The draft National Planning Policy Framework was published last week. With its presumption in favour of sustainable development, it could be just what the economy needs
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CommentAdjudication clauses: Profile Projects Ltd vs Elmwood (Glasgow) Ltd
Although this is a Scottish decision (and so not directly binding on English courts) it is interesting for two reasons
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CommentPlanning Framework: the latest revolution
This week’s publication of the National Planning Policy Framework puts the ball back in the developers’ court
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CommentPublic procurement: Part of the service
There’s been a surge in public procurement disputes in the past six months and the court is proving itself to be the ultimate one-stop-shop for tendering problems
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CommentRight tool for the job
It’s costly and controversial but for those that can afford it, BIM pays off
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Inbox: Neither here nor there
This week, where are all the mums that need work? And are timber-frame flats about to become similarly scarce? Meanwhile, it’s dictionaries at dawn for the lawyers
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Dos and don'ts: Delay tactics on infrastructure projects
The latest in our dos and don’ts series looks at how employers on major infrastructure projects try to protect themselves from the consequences of late completion
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CommentWining contracts: Confidence trick
Winning contracts is no longer a matter of being a big company, or even offering the lowest price. What bidders must offer clients is a sense of security
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CommentWonders & blunders with Marcus Lee
Marcus Lee admires the Yale Centre for British Art for its understated presence, but criticises Frank Gehry’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion for making its mark too permanent
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CommentHansom: burn, baby, burn
This week, two newly weds move in with each other (at last), DJ Johnny Inferno is told to put his dancing shoes away and landscape architects solve a potentially itchy problem at the Olympic park
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Asbestos legislation: It's a killer
Under pressure from the European Commission, the government announced earlier this month a consultation on beefing up asbestos legislation - employers take note …