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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Cluttons
Surveyors seem to have a predilection for rather shiny watering holes in west(ish) London when Building Buys a Pint. The Portman, which has removed most of its old wooden interior in favour of cream walls and rack upon rack of immaculate glassware, is no exception
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NewsTaylor Wimpey clinches £950m credit deal
A refinancing by Taylor Wimpey was the highlight among respectable interim statements to the City by three of the biggest housebuilders this week, despite a no-show from the traditional boost in autumn sales
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CommentLet’s rebuild our legal system
The fundamental truth about contract law is that those who use it don’t understand it, and so it endangers their survival. Shouldn’t the government rethink the whole thing?
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British Land reveals £1.5bn London development programme
Developer British Land has committed to a £1.5bn development programme in the London office market, it announced on Tuesday
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Styles & Wood to rebrand after turnover warning to City
Property services firm Styles & Wood has said that it will rebrand to become known as S&W, two weeks after it issued a turnover warning to the City
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CommentHansom: Hue and cry
Modern classicism shows its colours (anything you like as long as it’s white), while those who should be blushing a beautiful shade of pink include Cabe, Jarvis, and, ahem, a few of our colleagues
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CommentDifficult jurisdictions: Libya
In the first of a series on difficult jurisdictions, Chris Hill turns the focus on Libya where the opportunities are on a par with its challenges
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HSE to lose extra inspectors
The Health and Safety Executive will not renew the contracts of the 24 temporary construction safety inspectors it recruited last year when their employment ends next June
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NewsStratford scholars
Make has won planning for an education building in Stratford, London, provisionally titled the Stratford Island University Centre
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Rok administrators in last push to sell contracts
Hopes of selling whole business gone as divisions shut down and potential buyers back away
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NewsLatest construction appointments : 19 November 2010
Barratt has appointed Tom Keevil general counsel and company secretary. He joins from United Utilities where he held the same position.
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CommentQuality control
Bingham and Walker pirouette around the truth (29 October, page 52), without coming to the point, in arguing the duty a QS owes to the client in valuing work in progress under a JCT contract. JCT makes it clear that only the architect is to judge if what is being ...
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Not over yet
I enjoyed the broad-ranging discussion as a panel member of the round table on cavity walls on 7 September
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Domino effect
Regarding your article “Bovis asks suppliers about Rok exposure” (12 November, page 11), I for one can see nothing untoward in this move
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Future burdens ...
Regarding the loophole in the new Part L rules, this is a missed opportunity by the communities department to drive down the emissions of new-build homes
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Finer matters
Some of us may remember the Royal Fine Art Commission (RFAC). It was about as effective as Cabe, though having to work more through the community
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NewsSpecialists: rebate demands ‘contagious’
The head of the Specialist Engineering Contractors Group has described the practice of large facilities management firms demanding discounts and rebates from their subcontractors as a “contagious disease”, as suppliers warn they will have to pass cost cuts down their supply chains, writes Daniel Thomas.
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NewsMorrell berates architects
Chief construction adviser Paul Morrell compared the “irrational exuberance” in recent architecture to the hedonism of the financial markets in a speech yesterday.