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CommentWonders & blunders with Estelle Morris
Estelle Morris gives top marks to a much-improved Birmingham primary school, but thinks the designers of the Institute of Education deserve a ticking off
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FeaturesSchools funding: adding up for politicians
Once the UK’s borrowing hits 12% of GDP, how much money will be available to build schools? Well, that depends on how the next government does its sums
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CommentHansom super-size this
There’s nothing wrong with excess, whether taking a prodigious number of lunches or hundreds of trips abroad or lining your wall with mobile phones – but working at the weekend? That’s just too much
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FeaturesCanary contrary
Boris Johnson, mayor of London, has used his powers to determine a planning application in the capital for the first time
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HCA set to take stake in affordable housing schemes
Move follows public spat between London mayor and communities department over investment policy
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130 contractors sign up to build housing on public land
More than 130 contractors have applied to build homes under the Homes and Communities Agency’s public land initiative
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Getting the message across
I have sympathy with much of the sentiment in Tony Bingham’s article on cover pricing (28 August, page 42)
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CommentThe root of the problem
I am writing in regard to your article “Giant fly swats could suck up motorway fumes” (27 August)
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Fighting solves nothing
Much has been said and written recently on the expressed intention of some employers, in both the public and private sectors, to abandon framework agreements in favour of lowest price
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A better way
I was very interested to read the framework discussion between Don Ward and Stan Hornagold (7 August, page 32)
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Nobody’s perfect
Arguments against frameworks – here and elsewhere – seem to pick up on a few cases of bad procurement and apply these as true across all frameworks
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Sad state of affairs
With regards to the letter by KD Overment in your issue of 31 July (page 22), I have been involved in many projects for university buildings and find the attitude of the estates departments often depressing
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FeaturesTim Byles: 'We're firing on all cylinders'
There’s no doubt the pace has picked up since Tim Byles took over the running of the Building Schools for the Future programme. But with all the uncertainties of the economy and next year’s election, will he be able to keep up the momentum?
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Comment‘Valid’ doesn’t mean ‘true’: withholding payment
A party that doesn’t want to pay another needs to issue a withholding notice with a reason why it’s not paying – but does this reason need to be reasonable?
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CommentHow to pick a winner: adjudication
Believe it or not, it can be tricky to decide whether you’ve won or lost a legal case. How come? Well here’s an illustration from the world of horse breeding
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Trouble in the transfer market: TUPE regulations and frameworks
Under TUPE regulations, staff are transferred from contractor to contractor depending on who is doing the work. But how does that function with frameworks?
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Tories to stick with pathfinder initiative
The Tories have said they would continue to support regeneration schemes, including the housing market renewal pathfinder initiative, should they win the next election
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FeaturesKfW Banking HQ: Eco de Cologne
The Anglo-German practice Sauerbruch Hutton has released images of its almost completed 38,000m2 extension for the KfW Banking headquarters in Cologne
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NewsKennedy Twaddle wins planning for New Cross hotel
Architect Kennedy Twaddle has been granted planning permission for this 60-bedroom hotel next to Goldsmiths college In New Cross, south-east London
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NewsHomes agency to review all Thames Gateway spending
HCA to decide which schemes in regeneration area have ‘realistic chance of getting off the ground’