All Letters articles – Page 97
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The value of conflict …
Peter Rogers’ argument for one professional institute to replace all the existing bodies (24 September, page 24) is a step too far – too radical for the “silo mentality” of the individual professions (the unhappily accurate words of your perceptive leader that week, page 3). But perhaps more importantly, the ...
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In criticism of Michael
Any investor in the construction sector must have read Sir Michael Latham’s article “In defence of Peter” (17 September, page 31) with dismay bordering on disbelief, particularly his final paragraph regarding the general public’s “envious carping about salaries of industry leaders”.
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A tragic legacy
Although it is possible to have sympathy with any small building contractors who are struggling to obtain employer’s liability insurance at the moment, the root cause of this problem is not any great rise in claims, or the compensation culture, as some employers organisations would attempt to suggest.
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Delayed reaction
The letter from Peter Atherton regarding the lack of skilled labour (3 September, page 35) brings to mind some information I read in Peter Nicholson’s Encyclopedia of Architecture.
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Doorstepping
We has swapped the hurly-burly of management at Berkeley Homes for the post of managing director at Silver Homes, a privately owned housebuilder developing just 20-50 upmarket homes a year in Sussex, Surrey and Kent
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Transatlantic drift
The neat substitution of “USA” for “UK” in a quote attributed to me (“Architect quits over troubled Nato project”, 10 September, page 10) certainly makes for more titillating and incendiary copy than the facts.
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Getting the wind-up
There are less catastrophic, but just as effective, methods of securing payment than resorting to a winding-up petition (13 August, page 34; Letters, 17 September, page 32).
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It’s all in the regs
What is set out in the article by Paul Morrell on the Scottish parliament building (3 September, page 40), albeit in different words, is nothing less than the need to comply with the CDM Regulations.
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CABE convinced
Your coverage of the CABE review of Birmingham’s new PFI hospital (27 August, page 13) is a distortion of the tone of its report.
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Cyclists are normal – honest!
The introduction to your article about elevated composite cycle lanes (27 August, page 50) was a bit over the top, even for late August. Cycling in London is not only for the superhuman.
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What the deuce …?
We would like to clarify that Capita Symonds is the lead structural engineering as well as civil engineering consultant for the Wimbledon Centre Court project (3 September, page 16).
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Wriggling-out petitions
I read Nick Lane’s article “Don’t fall for Redmond’s wind-up” (3 September, page 52) with great interest and learned a lot from his hints to main contractors on how to avoid the consequences of receiving a statutory demand or winding-up petition.
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Curry’s scary stuff
David Curry’s article scrutinising the government’s thinking on the future of council housing (13 August, page 39) was one of the most frightening I have ever read in Building.
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The fender defence
I was interested to read that signature architect Ken Yeang has proposed the construction of two 40-storey towers to developer St Modwen at the Elephant & Castle shopping centre in south London (30 July, page 9).
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Iron will
Davis Langdon’s article on the costs of metal roofing (Specifier, July, page 13) missed an important point.While it is true that base metal prices vary, data from the Building Cost Information Service shows that an increase in roofing cost of £1/m2 adds only about 0.1% to overall building cost. This ...
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Our man of many words
Further to Jonathan Meades article on five great architects you’ve never heard of, could I suggest George Edward Tonge, who designed Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, and CE Mallows who came up with Tirley Garth in Willington, Cheshire. And could someone enquire of Mr Meades what on earth “farniente” ...
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Safety’s come a long way
There has probably been more progress in the area of improvements in construction site safety and attitudes to training over the past 18 months than at any time in recent years.
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Credit where it’s due
It is a great disappointment to find that such an excellent article dealing with the Hyde Housing Association prefabricated flat development (6 August, page 38) failed to mention the approved inspector for Building Regulations or the important role played by the staff of our central London office.
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Paying for a faulty system
Last week’s editorial on construction’s payment problems (13 August, page 3) leads one to the conclusion that when the chips were down the provisions of the Construction Act were found to be ineffective.