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Features
Careers: Ask Edward
Having problems at work? Not sure about your legal position? In the first of a regular series our expert Edward Goodwyn, a partner at solicitor Masons, answers your questions
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Features
Feeling the winter chill
The first Tracker of the year from Experian Business Strategies forecasts that construction growth will cool off over the next three months, but offers a sunnier outlook for 2004 as a whole
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NewsFurther and better particulars of … Tom Dengenis, Chief executive of Asite
Our monthly series on the construction people in the news targets the chief executive officer of loss-making internet portal Asite. Here he tells us how he plans to make it pay
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Comment
A turn for the worse
A decade of revolutionary culture change seems to have culminated in the triumph of a class of supervisor bureaucrats. The real workers are back where they started
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NewsLiving in the past
Concept homes are supposed to lead the way to the future. The only problem is, the housebuilding industry never wants to follow. As David Wilson Homes launches a fresh mission, we wonder whether the industry will ever boldly go anywhere
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David Curry
The chronic housing shortage has spurred Whitehall into commissioning a host of well meaning reports, but the tricky policy decisions may take a good while longer to emerge
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Comment
You’ll pay for this
Why are construction leaders so reluctant to join the political fray over tuition fees?
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Comment
Scotland is freezing
The Human Rights Act limited Scottish claimants' rights to freeze defendants' assets before judgment. But a recent case may encourage this tool to be used more
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Comment
I've put the bomb there
If a project manager supervises the installation of a fire risk, then warns its client that it has installed a fire risk, does the warning absolve it of blame after the inevitable fire?
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Comment
Thanks, partner!
From my experience of working in Holland, the way in which Ballast Nedam has treated staff and subcontractors at Ballast UK comes as no surprise.
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Under guarantee
I would like to offer some support and consolation to those subcontrators owed money by Ballast.
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We're all doomed
I want to express my outrage at the government's proposal to increase tuition fees to undergraduates.
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Comment
Name that toon
You refer, in the issue of 9 January (page 38), to the Gateshead Music Centre as a building due for completion in 2004, and claim that "the city of Newcastle will be gaining a Lord Foster landmark". However Gateshead is on one bank of the Tyne and Newcastle is ...
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Comment
What's with Duncan Wallace?
Mr Duncan Wallace is the possessor of a mighty intellect and has provided a supplement (Hudson's Building & Engineering Contracts 11th Edition First Supplement), which is comprehensive and scholarly.
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Healthy competition
I agree with Gus Alexander (19 December, page 23) that capacity and expertise are hot topics in healthcare architecture.
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Let your voice be heard
I have resigned from the RICS after more than 50 years in the profession.
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Nimbyism at work
Another reason for housing sites not being developed (19 December, page 18) is restrictive covenants.
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Comment
Hissed again
In recognition of your timely post-Crimbo blitz on the dangers of the demon drink (16 January, pages 1, 3 and 24), wouldn't it be a consistent gesture to abandon the lashing out of £25 drinks vouchers to the winners of the excellent "In the detail" competition on this page? ...
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NewsHealthy competition
A Balfour Beatty-led consortium has beaten off a Bovis Lend Lease team to win preferred bidder status on a £521m hospital PFI in Birmingham.The 35-year deal, for the University Hospital Birmingham Trust and the Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Trust, is due to reach financial close in March 2005. The ...