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CommentThe devil’s due
The Construction Act’s rules on payment have a basic flaw: they don’t contain a mechanism that enables a debt to crystallise by a certain date. So, time for a rethink …
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Mrs Bingham’s lament
Some clever people have come up with easy-to-use framework contracts that just might cut disputes. So where will our household clothing budget come from?
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Don’t fall for Redmond’s wind-up
So, John Redmond reckons the nuclear option is a good way to make reluctant (or broke) payers cough up, does he? Well, just remember it can easily backfire …
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When in Benghazi …
English may be becoming the lingua franca of international commerce but don’t make the mistake of thinking that construction law is the same everywhere
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Peter the portly puss
Your readers may be interested to know that Peter Lobban, the chief executive of the Construction Industry Training Board has a salary of £214,775.
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Paying for a faulty system
Last week’s editorial on construction’s payment problems (13 August, page 3) leads one to the conclusion that when the chips were down the provisions of the Construction Act were found to be ineffective.
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The last of the tradesmen
I started working as a joiner in the 1970s and you could say my age group (40-year-olds) were the last of the tradesmen to be brought through a real apprenticeship. This should have enabled us, now that some of us are in managerial positions, to pass on our expertise to ...
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Safety’s come a long way
There has probably been more progress in the area of improvements in construction site safety and attitudes to training over the past 18 months than at any time in recent years.
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Phone a fraud squad
What the industry needs is a hotline to report bogus companies that the Inland Revenue actually takes notice of!
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Credit where it’s due
It is a great disappointment to find that such an excellent article dealing with the Hyde Housing Association prefabricated flat development (6 August, page 38) failed to mention the approved inspector for Building Regulations or the important role played by the staff of our central London office.
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Poundbury rules
You mention Poundbury in connection with the new commuter village of Cambourne near Cambridge (13 August, page 36). Both are faced with potential expansion way beyond the original plans.
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That sinking feeling
Andy Carter asks why the RAC buildings at Bristol and Walsall harbour a nautical theme (Letters, 13 August, page 28).
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Sorry, sir
I was fascinated by your diary item “The Kingsdale experiment” (9 July, page 27).
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Features
If we built Holyrood again …
As those involved in the misconstruction of the Scottish parliament building anxiously await the findings of the Fraser Inquiry, Paul Morrell of Davis Langdon, the QS on the £431m job, investigates what lessons we’ve learned from the whole sorry episode – and which old ones we should never have forgotten
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NewsGummer tipped as favourite for CABE chair
Tory MP and former environment secretary described as ‘hard to match’ in architectural and political experience
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NewsParty poopers
Hundreds of angry workers were this week protesting outside the Wembley national stadium project in north-west London. The protests were continuing hours before a star-studded line-up, including prime minister Tony Blair, England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson and England captain David Beckham, was due to arrive to salute the completion of ...
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NewsBlackpool rocking again
Blackpool promenade has had a £4m makeover. The changes include new street lighting, modern sculpture and an LED wall in the shape of a crashing wave. The work has been funded by the North West Development Agency, the European Regional Development Fund and Blackpool council. The client was Blackpool New ...
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Housing slowdown fails to curb land prices
Housebuilder Wilson Bowden says land prices are continuing to rise despite signs of a slowdown in the housing market
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Small companies ‘losing’ 21 working weeks a year
A report by research company LexisNexis has found that small businesses in the construction industry have to spend 21 man weeks a year on completing paperwork required by government regulations.
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NewsMultiplex warns Cleveland over ‘disparaging remarks’
Feud between contractor and steel firm intensifies as football celebrities turn a blind eye to pickets at topping out