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CommentWatch out, Homer Simpson
Judges interpret contracts with reference to what a reasonable person would understand under the circumstances. Just don’t expect any help if you claim stupidity
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FeaturesA guy called Gerald
A tycoon, a predator, a convict, a philanthropist, a philosopher, a doting father ... even among the outsized characters who make up the property developing fraternity, Gerald Ronson is remarkable. Emily Wright found out just how remarkable
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CommentGive it a chance
The ODA is taking lots of flak for its sustainable development policy. But Jennie Price, outgoing WRAP supremo and incoming Sport England chief, thinks we should cut them some slack
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CommentHansom Romantic interlude
The mating season is here again, so let’s enjoy the gorgeous sight of architects displaying to clients while headhunters feather their nests and Ken Livingstone bangs heads with the French
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FeaturesIs Foster on the eve of dominance or decline?
Britain’s greatest architectural practice is planning a massive expansion. But what does it mean for the man who founded the business, the global brand and, of course, the buildings?
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CommentPassing notes
YouTube is the lunchtime detention of the online world – filled with pranks, giggles and health and safety violations. Alex Smith can hardly bear to look ...
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NewsGladedale to adopt single brand as profit rockets 50%
Housebuilder sets sights on place in top 10 and predicts that turnover will hit £680m
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FeaturesSorry, but these rules don’t work
Quantity surveyors are piling pressure on the Home Office to rethink the laws that are keeping foreign workers out of the UK – and sending some badly needed ones back home.
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NewsKelly to toughen standards in private rented sector
But critics argue that the introduction of a ‘level playing field’ could put off many investors
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Morrisons drops NG Bailey after YouTube stunts
Supermarket ‘steps back’ from 30-year relationship after workers’ pranks are shown on internet
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Olympic body puts 2012 contract tenders online
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has put the tendering process for 2,000 Olympic contracts online.
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NewsBioRegional beats Dunster to zero-carbon project
Developer wins chance to build London’s first zero-carbon development in the Royal Docks
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NewsODA wins Olympic village payback
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is to receive a profit share from house sales in the £4bn Stratford City scheme under a deal to be sealed within the next two weeks, write Sarah Richardson and David Blackman.
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NewsDesign Building's office in Second Life
If you’re fed up with the planning restrictions in the real world enter our competition to design a virtual Building office in Second Life
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NewsITV Granada steps closer to Salford move
Architects working on plans for the BBC’s new home in Salford have been asked to draw up designs for a Granada base on the site
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Isn’t it time for a little bit of discrimination?
Allowing overseas project managers and QSs to stay in the UK would be a surefire way of bridging Britain’s talent Gap
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NewsSMC regroups after profit warning and share plunge
Stewart McColl reassures investors by bringing in a City figure as executive chairman
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CommentBoth ends against the middle
Tony Bingham Is it the dispute decider’s job to pick one of the warring parties’ positions and declare it the right one? Or can they come up with a solution that neither party argued for?
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FeaturesLife, or something quite like it
Second Life is the virtual world that has its own businesses, currency and an exchange rate with real money. And where there’s real money, developers are never far behind. Katie Puckett steps ‘in-world’ as Katarina Rockett (she’s the one with the red bunches) to investigate the world’s first virtual construction ...