All Letters articles – Page 41
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CommentEarn your spurs
As a Spurs supporter and frequent attender at White Hart Lane, I strongly welcome the confirmation of the development plans for a new stadium. However, a critical issue will be accessibility to the new ground.
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Energy challenges
The shortage of assessors caused by the dearth of green projects (24 October, page 50) could be the least of our worries in the looming skills crisis.
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Asking the impossible
I read with some interest your article (17 October, page 24) on making owners improve property before letting it out or selling it.
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Monkeying around
The OFT has found some recruitment companies guilty of price fixing. Why is it that nothing surprises me any more?
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Lebanese labour
The first time I picked up Building magazine in Dubai, I was extremely impressed … until I came across this comment (Building Gulf supplement, October, page 32): “Unless you employ cheaper labourers from India, Asia and the Lebanon, you won’t be competitive in the marketplace.”
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Dreaming of a warm Christmas
Well, it’s a freezing morning here at Wolseley head office and Rob “look at the size of my bonus” Marchbank has just held a business review meeting for the benefit of the staff left here (we lost 73 last month).
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Electricity vs biomass
Why is electricity given such a negative loading in the Code for Sustainable Homes?
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Way off target
The generally perceived view is that targets in policing and the health sector are counterproductive.
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Not working out
I just read your article about Bouygues UK carrying out warm-up exercises on their sites (17 October, page 54).
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Forward planning
Mike Davies is incorrect to say that the Royal Town Planning Institute has “inevitably created an academic closed shop that has contributed to the shortage of qualified planners” (17 October, page 32).
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Safety first
The recent blaze in the Channel Tunnel was a worrying echo of the fire in 1996.
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A very cross industry approach
Having read your ConstructionSkills article (17 October, page 38), I would totally support the views of Mark Farrar.
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Painting a bleak picture
The HSE recently found that a high number of professional home refurbishment projects in London were unsafe. But this hides a big problem: exposure to lead dust and fumes arising from something as simple as redecorating your own living room (if you live in a pre-1960s home).
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CommentRaising the bar
It is no surprise to see that a scheme masterminded by Countryside Properties under the chairmanship of Alan Cherry has won the Stirling prize.
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All they survey
I worked for many years in the engineering insurance industry as an engineer surveyor carrying out statutory inspections of lifting equipment. During the course of my job I visited many building sites each week to inspect cranes and other mobile lifting equipment. Although I am now retired, I know that ...