All Letters articles – Page 73
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Slow boats from China
Is it just me who is appalled by the rank hypocrisy shown by Bill Dunster ("Dunster set to build 1000 eco homes a year in London", 19 May, page 13)?
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CommentThe balance of terror
Thanks to Trevor Harrison of MDA Consulting for this photograph of how they do things in Istanbul.
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Soothing words for Mr Angry
The architect who wrote the Open Mike entitled "Anger, tedium and malice" (12 May, page 38), is clearly in a parallel universe - a universe that is time-warped backwards by about 20 years. The scary thing is, he is not alone. Parts of the industry are stuck there with him.
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An advantage over men
Elderly female residents and single women tell us they feel safer with women tradespeople working in their homes when we are refurbishing local authority estates with residents in occupation.
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2020 shortsightedness
Without even getting into the detail of what LPS 2020, the new performance standard for modern methods of construction, will or won't deliver (5 May, page 52), one has to consider the basics:
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Willmott's women
I wonder if Ray O'Rourke works in the same industry as me? As the head of HR for another major contractor, I am very aware that the notion that a building site "is not a place where women fit" left our culture many years ago.
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A response to Ray
Ray O'Rourke claims that CITB-ConstructionSkills is failing in its efforts to attract young people to the industry (19 May, page 14). I'm more than happy to set the record straight.
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Who was that masked misogynist
I read with interest your anonymous article on design team meetings (12 May, page 38) and came to the conclusion that your writer was male and a bit of a misogynist.
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Jumping is not the only option
It sounds like your anonymous architect contributor's problem was chairmanship. If he was the chairman (he doesn't say who was), the solution was in his own hands - control the meeting.
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The mother of invention
Your article "For whom the (school) bell tolls", (28 April, page 24) raised the point that budget overruns associated with new academies can be attributed to extravagant and ill-considered design.
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The enthusiasts' revolution
Sir David King's enthusiasm for nuclear power is taking us back into the mainframe trap.
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CommentThe plywood
In a former life as a site manager, I was charged with carrying out £800,000 of modifications to a building designed by a signature designer of international renown. I had an outline programme, budget and a designer novated, for want of a better word, to the main (negotiated) contract. At ...
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A small, but important, omission
Thank you for publishing my letter about tax breaks for cleaning up contaminated land and buildings (12 May, page 37).
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Flawed on floors
As a regular reader of Building I was particularly interested in the article "Recyled content" (31 March, page 71).
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The view from The Edge
A series of debates on the looming energy crisis has concluded that UK construction can lead the way in developing ‘Kyoto Plan B’.
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CommentLeave school building to the professionals
Your articles "The big question" (13 April, page 30) and "For whom the (school) bell tolls" (28 April, page 24) highlight the problem schools face today. We have a government keen to improve the facilities in which we deliver education and learning for our children, and in my case grandchildren, ...
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How to build a successful city academy, part I
I have now seen three articles in Building identifying failed or overspent academy projects (13 April, 21 April and 5 May). I would like to redress the balance.