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FeaturesTalking balls with the minister
Phil Hope is charge of chivvying the industry into becoming energy efficient, sustainable and security conscious, while simultaneously championing IT and keeping the ODPM green. So a metaphor rather suggests itself, as we point out.
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FeaturesMarks Barfield cafe: One small, skinny mollusc please
Marks Barfield’s latest scheme is an invertebrate cafe that has attached itself to Birmingham’s Bullring centre – where it is providing weary shoppers with a shell-like retreat
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CommentBlind eyes and bloody kids
Contractors have to be on their guard against potential defects or dangers even though they aren’t covered in the contract – as these cases illustrate
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CommentTackle it with Eezyjudge®
Only 28 days to decide 276 final account quarrels on 17,000 pieces of paper? Don’t despair. Just apply a little of this 100%-proof, no-nonsense dispute decider
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No room for horse traders
Once upon a time, you could end a dispute with a global settlement and trot off to your insurer to ask for compensation. It is no longer that simple
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Garbage in, garbage out
Being armed to the teeth with a fancy computer program is all very well but, as a recent case illustrates, what matters is the quality of the data fed into it
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Calling all megalomaniacs
In your article “The greatest buildings never built” (22 October, page 42), you refer to Buckminster Fuller’s New York dome as a “megalomaniac plan”.
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Unite behind unitisation
Unitised curtain walling is by no means the new technology you think it is (22 October, page 76).
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Thatcher’s child
I read with great, but amused, interest your article on the stream of self-employment now beginning in the construction industry (8 October, page 114).
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Beyond Kyoto
Regardless of whether the nations of the world embrace the objectives of Kyoto (Tom Barker’s article, 8 October, page 31), the impeding energy crisis will not go away.
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Our lives in your hands
Designers seem to ignore their responsibilities under CDM regulations, in that they should be designing out risk wherever possible.
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A taste of union medicine
I was interested to read in your above article (22 October, page 10) that the TUC is stepping up pressure on the government to press ahead with its manifesto commitment to introduce corporate manslaughter legislation.
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Piling on the agony
I read your piling special (15 October 2004, page 64) and found it lacking in up-to-date information in key areas.
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FeaturesDealing with libya
The moment when Tony Blair shook hands with Muammar Gadaffi, bygones were officially bygones and an entire country was opened up for British firms to exploit. But what are the realities of doing business in Libya? We visited the former pariah state to find out
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Kajima UK boss Barker says sayonara after five years
UK director of Japanese contracting giant cites personal reasons – not £2m pre-tax losses – for stepping down
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Atkins plans move into Libyan market
Consultant Atkins is planning to open an office in Libya by next summer.
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CommentLet’s talk about sex
In these days of chronic skills shortages, any initiative to double construction’s pool of potential recruits is welcome.