Opinion – Page 255
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CommentHansom: Tech savvy
Isn’t technology incredible? We can heat swimming pools with crematoriums, build lifts that go into space … and yet there’s still no way to recall an inadvertently sent email, as two architects found out
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CommentFocus on our skills base, not credit agencies
The government is hell-bent on satisfying the credit rating agencies when it would be better investing long-term in our skills base, says David Blunkett
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Inbox: On a budget
This week, readers seize hold of the purse strings - berating the government for failing to cap public procurement costs and laying into the RICS for racking up huge losses
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CommentEco standards in schools are slipping
Michael Gove’s free schools were meant to rip through red tape. But it’s not just the curriculum that has been relaxed - increasingly, sustainability and space requirements are being dropped too. Now fears are growing that this latest austerity measure could spread to all new schools, as Allister Hayman reports
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My digital life … Peter Rhodes
This managing director is known to check his email at the weekend and will challenge you to a mobile version of Scrabble any day
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CommentWe're going to Shanghai
The city, and the wider Chinese construction market, are starting to see a fresh approach to development - and it's about more than tall buildings and neon
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CommentColombia invites you to join its building boom
Misconceptions and a lack of knowledge of Colombia could be preventing firms from tapping into rich opportunities there
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CommentPlant hire activity rises again in 2011 Q4
Latest data supports the view that there was reasonble recovery in activity at the end of last year – but that is still below peak
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CommentMy digital life: Andrew Murray
This founding director keeps his world and answers concise and last bought a Scalectrix online
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CommentA quick guide to compulsory liquidation
A quick guide to the process of compulsory liquidation or winding up of an insolvent company under the Insolvency Act 1986. It includes guidance for creditors, employees and directors of a company in compulsory liquidation
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CommentWhere’s the growth?
The latest industry contract figures show a surprise spurt in activity - welcome news amongst the economic doom and gloom
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CommentSustainable buildings: Leaner but greener
We have to resist the temptation to think that sustainable buildings are too expensive in a downturn. Clever, low technology design and a change of mindset are called for, says Ken Gillespie
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CommentPlaying dirty
Here’s a case that carries a warning to parties in a dispute that fighting your corner too viciously may cost you dearly in the long run
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CommentHansom: Peace breaks out
This week we witness the calm streets of Bogotá after the colourful student protests, while Balfour Beatty Engineering Services pulls back from the brink to negotiate with picketing electricians
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Inbox: Back to basics
This week, readers argue that sometimes the best solution is the simplest; returning Battersea to its role as a power station and getting procurement briefs right rather than re-inventing the process
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CommentWonders & blunders with Ian Blacker
Ian Blacker delights in the inclusiveness of Mies van der Rohe’s 1929 pavilion, but flinches while walking past the clumsy St George Wharf riverside housing tower
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CommentWhat about conservatories in the Part L consultation?
It’s high time the government took the opportunity to regulate energy wasting conservatories
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CommentWhy the CPA is right to push quantitative easing for house building
There’s growing backing in the construction industry for using the quantitative easing machine as a means to increase the number of homes being built