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Features
Get it right: roofing
A poorly constructed roof can have devastating consequences on the home. The effects of repairing or replacing a roof structure can be disruptive to the homeowner and costly to the builder and warranty provider. Here Nick Cuffe, technical manager at Zurich Insurance Building Guarantee, examines three ways to head off ...
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FeaturesSpeaking volumes
First he was big, then he went small. Now he wants to go bigger again. Josephine Smit talked to Geoff Potton, the expansive head of Antler Homes
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Bovis stretches lead to more than £600m in October
Contractor tops monthly and yearly leagues for second time in three months with £150m Southwark scheme.
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Features
Good on paper
The quality of your CV could make or break your job chances. Hays Montrose offers some suggestions on how to make yours an asset not a liability
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News
Carillion makes 400% profit on PFI
Contractor Carillion has disposed of its stake in the Darent Valley hospital in Kent for more than four times its original investment.
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News
Architects' fees increase 11% in 2003
Architects' fees are expected to have increased 11% this year, according to research by economic consultant Market & Business Development.
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Comment
Granting a sultan's wish
Architects are capable of anything – as long as they're given unlimited funds, resources and co-operation, and have no competition. Ah, them were the days …
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Comment
Welcoming our guest workers
David Blunkett's imperious asylum policy – outlined in the Queen's Speech – may have profound implications for construction.
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Comment
Flights of fancy
I was astounded by the impracticality of the proposed revamp of terraced houses by Shed KM featured in your article "Sex in Coronation Street" (7 November, pages 48-50).
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Comment
Utopia – we're almost there
I enjoyed reading the "Not the Egan Review" (24 October, pages 42-49), which could go a long way to creating Utopia in the industry.
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Comment
To be remote, be intimate
In relation to your article "Good Morning, Vietnam" (5 September, pages 38-41), I would like to point out that many outsource companies are trying to produce information without knowledge or experience of the UK.
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Not in my name
I was less than impressed with your wild editing of my letter to make a politically correct point (7 November, page 35).
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Comment
Full marks for construction training
As a student at Loughborough University studying construction engineering management, I would like to comment on the article about construction students by Kate Allen (14 November, pages 44-47).
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Comment
Private space vs open plan
Paul Morrell ("Are you being served?", 17 October, page 41) commented that we ought to know how much well designed offices aid productivity.
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Comment
Broken homes
I wonder if the government is aware of the upheaval its new Home Condition Report for surveyors might generate.
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Comment
Sound and fury
I got the impression from your article "When walls have ears" (5 September, pages 56-57) that the industry was suggesting a radical new approach, but a method of robust standard details has been working successfully in Scotland for years under the term "deemed to satisfy".
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Legalised coupling
As we became a limited liability partnership in 2001 – admittedly one of the first – we were puzzled by James Bessey's claim (7 November) that LLPs became legal only in April 2003.