Opinion – Page 278
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CommentTaking the measure of it
If we don’t know how a building is performing, how can we know if we are reducing its energy use? Display energy certificates for commercial buildings are a start
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CommentWeighty matters
Construction costs, share prices and mergers are just some of the subjects tackled in this week’s round-up. Who says I can’t be serious?
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Bank on this
Money pervades readers’ thoughts this week, as they ponder project costs and value for money, whether suicide bids ever pay off, banks not lending - and what does zero mean, anyway?
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CommentLawyers just don't NEC3's choice of words
A lawyer has just won a prize for a paper that challenges the NEC evangelists. You don’t have to like it, just read it. Then you too can be the judge
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Foreign intelligence: Advice on international arbitration
To avoid expensive rows international contracts need well drafted dispute resolution clauses. Here are some wise steps to take if arbitration is one option you want to try
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CommentConstruction jobs slump to lowest level since 2003
And new data suggests construction pay is stuck at 2007 levels
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CommentThe Green Deal needs more incentives to work
The Green Deal has lots off potential, but more improvements need to made to Energy Bill before it will work
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CommentLatest housing market weather reports suggest little break in the clouds post's title
House prices are bad, but no worse than we’ve come to expect
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CommentTesco and M&S go head-to-head over sustainability
At last week’s conference, delegates from major supermarkets discussed the challenges they faced going green
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CommentCity traders still see dismal future for house prices
Those betting on the future of house prices are predicting a decline of 7.5% in two years’ time
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CommentFew signs in construction output figures of private sector revival. But who really knows?
For all the confusion in output numbers, the conclusions to be drawn are rather disturbing
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CommentLearning the hard way
Question marks remain over whether the government’s new Education Funding Agency – and construction strategy – will be a success
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CommentA brief history of public land initiatives
Government’s promise to build 100,000 homes on public land is by no means the first
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CommentPower trip
Lord Sugar fires one of our own, primary school kids are in charge of site safety and the happy royal couple appear to have the extraordinary ability to duplicate themselves in exotic locations
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CommentWonders and blunders with James Denner
James Denner finds a long-admired museum in Italy lives up to all his expectations, but in Paris his view from the Eiffel Tower is ruined by a monstrosity amid the urban sprawl
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CommentWho can we blame?
The knives are out this week for ineffectual green policymakers and boardroom cavemen who refuse to embrace BIM but, strangely, construction lawyers come out of it all unscathed
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