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FeaturesWinner takes all
Giving up your job to become a freelancer will always involve some risk, especially if you are under 30. But as Amanda Hales, a 29-year-old QS, testifies the gamble can definitely pay off
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FeaturesA lone rider's rights
If you are considering becoming self-employed you must be aware of contractual, tax and legal implications
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David Curry
Unless we can stop the flight of public sector workers out of London and the South-east, we haven't a ghost of a chance of improving services
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FeaturesCecil Balmond
He doesn't recognise fixed systems of order, closed symmetries or assumptions of hierarchy, and sees structure as connective patterns. Man's clearly a bounder. We try to talk some sense into him.
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Too little, too late
"Four Pads" Prescott is in a pickle over housing again – and not just with his domestic arrangements.
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Legalised coupling
The limited liability partnership is a fresh legal vehicle, offering ease of upkeep, tax efficiency and manoeuvrability for consultants that work together
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Look before you leap
I'd like to invite Paul Reeder (24 October, Wonders and blunders, page 40) to come and visit the new-look Hayward Gallery.
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Creative problem solving
In your article, "Repeat after me: 'Yes I can run your project'", (17 October, page 44), you highlighted the requirement for project managers to be more focused on relationship management in their approach, and to be less process-driven.
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Strength in numbers
Reading "Repeat after me: 'Yes I can run your project'", I was taken back 30 years, to when I read Interdependence and Uncertainty, a report by the The Tavistock Institute, which had researched the construction professions and found that each one saw itself as pre-eminent.Sadly, little seems to have changed, ...
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52 ways to improve the industry
Congratulations on a review full of positive thinking and good ideas (Not the Egan review, 24 October, page 42).
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Where are the opportunities?
I am fed up reading about the industry's lack of profile and appeal.
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Prevention is better than cure
Rudi Klein (24 October, page 35) is right to point out that there is no room for defective thinking to remedy defective design.
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Supplier-led solutions
Although it is hard to disagree with the majority of Egan's basic views (24 October, page 42), by drawing on his experience in the car industry, he actually did the construction industry a disservice.
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Spot the adjudication loophole
I am advising a builder who has a dispute with a private residential client. His contract, a standard JCT98 form, states that there is provision for adjudication.
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NewsZaha's latest Italian outfit
This is the interior of Zaha Hadid's design for the Afragola station in Naples, southern Italy. As well as a train station, the development includes a nature and technology park, with agricultural experimentation centres, sports facilities and an exhibition centre. The station will cover about 20,000 m2 and could be ...
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Wembley welders laid off
Steel contractor Cleveland Bridge has laid off 96 welders working on Wembley Stadium.
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HSE asks courts to give tougher safety fines
Tim Walker, the director-general of the Health and Safety Executive, has called for a sharp increase in fines for companies who put staff at risk in the workplace by breaking safety regulations.
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Liverpool shortlists six for £85m dock
Six renowned architects are in the running to design an £85m arena and conference centre at King's Dock on Liverpool's waterfront.
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NewsBig in Beijing
A joint-venture team consisting of architect Foster and Partners, engineer Arup and Dutch airport planner NACO has won a contest to design the Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3. The terminal is to be built between the airport's eastern runway and a planned third runway. The terminal building to be ...