Opinion – Page 270
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CommentBye, bye, BSF ...
As the real effects of the education funding cuts begin to show, what can be done to make up the huge deficit?
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CommentConstruction output is heading into decline, but how fast and how far?
The numbers look grim but we have to dig a bit deeper before we panic
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CommentRICS predicts the year ahead in construction
A senior economist at the RICS looks at the year ahead for the industry
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CommentProviding schools: Creative classes
We don’t have enough places for kids in the schools their parents want. A new approach is needed: adapting other public buildings for education and bringing in private help to show us how
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CommentMy digital life…Diba Salam
Diba wants to avoid emails, Dom Joly moments and electro funck music
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CommentSchools crisis: ‘We have a responsibility to school our children’
Barking and Dagenham has to be the council the worst affected by the demise of the Building Schools for the Future programme. We look at the impact on pupils and construction in a deprived east London borough that is fast running out of space
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CommentHansom: Look at me!
Several ‘interesting’ ideas vie for our attention this week as Arup envisages a life-size Scalextric set, Miller Homes drafts in Keith Chegwin and German architects decide scaffolding should be more pretty
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CommentSetting the bar high
Is standardising design the way forward for schools? Yes, says Philip Watson, but only if ‘standardisation’ means ‘best practice’ and we consider the individual needs of the school
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CommentThe tracker: Summer dip
Activity declined across all three sectors in July, partly due to insufficient demand and labour shortages. Experian Economics examines the latest figures
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Inbox: Credit where it's due
Readers praise those who deserve recognition, be they engineers, the builders of code level 6 homes, or Scottish local authorities that have boosted housebuilding
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CommentWonders & blunders with Dominic Cullinan
Dominic Cullinan takes us on a science fiction tour of London - from the half-imagined ‘bulging cheeks’ of Old Street to the three bronzed sisters of the Barbican
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CommentThe perfect roof extension
If in doubt, strap it to the roof of the car and hope for the best …
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CommentA good planning system is critical, but right now the debate is a massive distraction
Money is at the centre of the problem – and people are confusing need and demand
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CommentDamages: Harrison vs (1) Shepherd Homes (2) National Housebuilding Council (3) NHBC Building Control Services
This case looks at Damages in respect of defective work, loss of amenity, distress and ilegnconvenience
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CommentAnd upwards
A decade on from the destruction of the World Trade Center, New York is busy rebuilding – and tall buildings have got stronger
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CommentWorst orders figures on record suggest the worst on the ground is yet to come
There are times when you hope you’re misreading data or that there may be an error. But it doesn’t look as though these crutches are available as I stare at the carnage implicit in the new orders data.
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CommentMy digital life…Paul Baron
Whether he’s relaxing on holiday or trawling the news sites this MD’s always up for a bit of Vulcan mind transfer
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CommentHansom: Spice of life
Laing O’Rourke treats its subbies to Mayfair’s haute cuisine, the concrete sector invents a word for the digital age and main contractors take a not-so-subtle verbal bashing – never a dull moment round here
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CommentProcurement: Design in the dumps
‘Design and dump’ procurement wastes contractors’ skills, distorts the market and pushes up costs for the client, says Steve Hale. But change is on the way
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Inbox: Public enemy number one
This week, readers discuss the funding problems with affordable housing, our inability to deliver projects on time and on budget without PFI, and the place of academia in our industry