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Features
Parting words
Employers can refuse to supply a reference, but they mustn't write an unfair one
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Lead times
A slackening in demand has meant lead times have not been adversely affected by the summer shutdowns according to Mace.
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News
Steelwork firms slash prices to stay afloat
The collapse of the London office and commercial market is forcing steelwork contractors to cut prices to win work and maintain market share.
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Comment
The end of innocence
Government, employers and insurance firms all assured us our pensions were in safe hands. Now our eyes have been opened, and it's time to go it alone
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FeaturesWish you were up there?
Kicking off an occasional series on career development, Kate Allen explores how you can jump up to the next level by tackling your skills gaps. But, she asks, how do you choose the course that's right for you?
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As good as it gets
Training and developing staff is not only essential if the construction industry is to be as good as the client demands, says the CITB's director of training strategy Sheila Hoile, but also if the industry is to fulfil its workers' career ambitions
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FeaturesIf I were in your boots …
In his latest management masterclass, Andrew Gay casts a beady eye over Mott MacDonald and tries to work out how a consultant with its talent can produce such mediocre results
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FeaturesFrom Birmingham to Basra
One minute he was a QS in Birmingham, the next he was dodging Scuds in Iraq. Territorial Army lance corporal Craig Barker spoke to us about food rations, Saddam's yacht and keeping cool.
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Features… and relax
It’s 15 months late, it’s doubled in cost and the project team has got into a big fight with itself – but all will be forgotten when the warm waters of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners’ Bath Spa are soothing harrowed souls …
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Comment
Hungary at knock-down prices
Our latest article on European legal systems deals with the tricky problem of being required to demolish your building after you've just finished building it
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Comment
Two blokes go into a pub
As you'll know, a man who drinks alcohol puts a thief in his mouth to steal his brains. What you may not know is that it can also negotiate construction work
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Comment
Give the guy a break
You certainly took a poke at our new construction minister (11 July, page 11).
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Comment
Striking exception
Ann Minogue writes (1 August, page 43) that the new JCT major projects form does not give extensions of time for strikes.
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Comment
Birmingham bull
Your article on Birmingham's Bull Ring (29 August, page 30) will upset many Brummies.
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Comment
The RICS has let us down
That RICS members have to turn to Building for news of a QS rebellion is proof of the extent to which our institution has let the profession down.
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Comment
And the banned played on
Wasn't your article "Scourge of the Skyline" a little sensationalist (25 July, page 24)?
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Comment
Keep on puffing
As a chartered QS, I read Nick Brooke's article (29 August, page 28) as so much hot air and piffle – does the guy honestly have any idea what it takes to manage a small QS practice in the UK in 2003? I think not.
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Comment
The information gap
In his interview, Nick Brooke, the RICS president gave no new information about the need to increase subscriptions (15 August, page 28).