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  • News

    Contractor gets £1m bill for DLR tunnel explosion

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Japanese firm Nishimatsu is fined £700,000 after admitting serious safety breaches on light rail extension

  • News

    London can cope with Olympics, says Arup

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    An Arup report into accommodation needs for London's 2012 Olympic bid claims that the capital will be able to cope with the hundreds of thousands of visitors expected at the games.

  • Features

    Careers: Ask Edward

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Features

    Feeling the winter chill

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    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

  • News

    Further and better particulars of … Tom Dengenis, Chief executive of Asite

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Comment

    A turn for the worse

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Comment

    Hansom

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    This week, internet translation engines. On the one hand they are free and easily accessible, on the other they make you sound like a twerp. Hmm …

  • News

    Living in the past

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    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

  • News

    David Curry

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Comment

    You’ll pay for this

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Why are construction leaders so reluctant to join the political fray over tuition fees?

  • Comment

    Scotland is freezing

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Comment

    I've put the bomb there

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    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?

  • Comment

    Thanks, partner!

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Comment

    Under guarantee

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    I would like to offer some support and consolation to those subcontrators owed money by Ballast.

  • Comment

    We're all doomed

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    I want to express my outrage at the government's proposal to increase tuition fees to undergraduates.

  • Comment

    Name that toon

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Comment

    What's with Duncan Wallace?

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Comment

    Healthy competition

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    I agree with Gus Alexander (19 December, page 23) that capacity and expertise are hot topics in healthcare architecture.

  • Comment

    Let your voice be heard

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    I have resigned from the RICS after more than 50 years in the profession.

  • Comment

    Nimbyism at work

    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Another reason for housing sites not being developed (19 December, page 18) is restrictive covenants.