All Letters articles – Page 54
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About time
It’s good to see that Rider Levett Bucknall has caught up with the times (“Project bank account set to be launched” 28 September, page 14).
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For your own good
I read with interest your articles on frameworks and small businesses (14 September, page 26).
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CommentGet with the times
Nick Raynsford raises some pertinent queries about the government’s plans to increase housing supply (14 September, page 30). The issue is whether this expansion will lead to a drop in design and environmental standards.
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Looking to the future
Building showed itself to be rather behind the news when it said last week (28 September, pages 13 and 28) that it had “emerged” that the targets set in 2004 for the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme would not be met – something we have been saying, and ...
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The shame game
Your health and safety blunders are all well and good, but just publishing them will not improve safety in the construction industry.
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CommentIn the frame
I’m sorry to hear about the three contractors featured in your article “The men who got left behind” (14 September, page 26) who say they have lost business as a result of framework agreements, but our research has found that it needn’t be this way.
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Think of the children
Bill Watts’ argument against the use of biomass to meet schools’ energy demands is woolly (24 August, page 32).
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Risky business
The directive to remove the legal obligation on architects trained in the EU to register with the Architects Registration Board, as long as they are working in the UK on a “temporary or occasional” basis, is due to be brought in by 20 October (31 August, page 12).
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Faero responds
Building’s report on the Faero competent persons scheme, “HIPs firm goes into liquidation” (7 September, page 13), was right to suggest that its demise was a result of the government’s change of mind about how the quality of energy ratings should be regulated.
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Don't take the cowards route
Tony Bingham’s article on the National Specialist Contractors Council (NSCC) payment toolkit brought to mind the phrase “Eureka!” (7 September, page 56).
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Conflicting goals
Your leader and feature on local contractors (14 September, 2007) was long overdue.
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Merton rules
If the government does intend to drop the “Merton rule” that 10% of energy in new developments come from renewable sources (31 August, page 24), the rationale for the move would be that a single nationwide policy is better than different policies in different areas.
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Remedial maths
In Bill Watts’ column (24 August, page 32) do I detect special pleading for wind farms to obscure the engineer’s incapacity to produce zero-energy buildings?
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CommentKiller noise
A new World Health Organisation report has revealed that excessive noise from modern urban life is killing almost 6,500 Britons a year.
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Robust indeed
David Holder suggested on your letters page (31 August, page 28) that a pass rate of 97.5% for Robust Details is not good enough – and that “nobody wants to talk about it”. That’s wrong. I do.
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Set up to fail
I have been listening to the media reports on the number of GCSEs being gained by those leaving school.