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She who laughs first …
I always find it interesting to read articles about women in construction (23 October, page 36)
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With friends like these …
Gillian Birkby (16 October, page 50) hits the nail on the head in berating public bodies for their unreasonably onerous appointment terms
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No laughing matter
For some time I have been uneasy about the direction of your health and safety blunders
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Back at you
You have really rattled my cage now! I complained that Building should not publish health and safety photos when it could do something positive, like report the matter to the Health and Safety Executive. Then you published Charles Johnston’s letter (23 October, page 31) suggesting my view was a “minority ...
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FeaturesThe right formula: Abu Dhabi's Yas Hotel
With its dramatic architecture, precise engineering and top-speed construction, the Formula One-themed Yas Hotel has outlapped most of Abu Dhabi’s other buildings
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Legal costs: And you say we won?
As Costain vs Haswell shows, judges are using exact measures to work out who pays how much of the legal costs. The results should give a lot of litigants pause for thought
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CommentContracts: Are you a cavalier or a roundhead?
You can have all the collaboration and co-operation you like in this industry of ours, but fundamentally the Roundheads are right: it’s all about the contract …
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How do I... draft a letter of intent?
In the latest of our series on tackling your own legal affairs, Deborah Primett explains how to draft the ever popular, ever problematic letter of intent
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FeaturesDownsizing Dubai: Will the Middle East's golden child ever be the same again?
The UAE is waking up … but it has one hell of a hangover, and it’s going to take more than a couple of fizzy tablets to make it all better. So what sort of market is emerging? Well, the chances are it’s going to be good news for shed ...
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FeaturesZaha's Museum of Transport: The battle of the oil can
Zaha Hadid’s Museum of Transport in Glasgow was designed with gothic zinc-clad ridges and 100m-plus roof spans. They looked great on a computer screen, but led to memorable rows with the project team
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CommentHansom: Epic tales
Construction folk fight the good fight this week; they clash with an A-list celeb, stagger through hurricanes, take on insane safety regs and eat all the pies
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Going all out for 80 per cent
Construction’s reform agenda needs kickstarting and a review of how the industry is placed to respond to the demands of a low carbon economy could do the trick
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CommentWonders & blunders with Chris Johnson
The Thorncrown Chapel in Arizona is worth a special pilgrimage, says Chris Johnson, but a classic example of eighties City architecture should be sent for recycling
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Shoots without roots
Last Friday’s figures for Britain’s GDP confirmed that the economy is still in recession and although we will come out of it in the final quarter of 2009, construction will remain in recession
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Tender prices ‘to fall 25%’
The fall in tender prices accelerated in the three months to October, leaving them 15% lower than a year ago, according to Davis Langdon’s latest market forecast
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Sir Robert McAlpine faces £3.4m writ for rusty pipes
Sir Robert McAlpine is being sued for more than £3.4m by law firm Linklaters over M&E work at its Silk Street office in the City of London
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NewsComo frontrunner for £80m City bank fit-out
Mace fit-out subsidiary set to win major fit-out contract at London's Watermark Place
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Tories will ‘change law’ to curb HSE
An incoming Tory government may change the law to allow contractors to ban Health and Safety Executive inspectors from sites
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NewsA home for Harry
A planning application has been submitted to Haringey council for a 56,250-seat stadium for Tottenham Hotspur