Opinion – Page 293
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Back to clients sharing risk
Soaring commodity prices mean contractors must either play safe and miss out or take a dangerous gamble. Is it time for clients to share some of the risk again?
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Building buys a pint for…Trowers & Hamlins
This week it’s lady’s night at Building buys a pint, and conversation turns to potato ricers, un-attentive boyfriends and furry hats
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Protect our assets
There is much comment and debate at present about the actions and spending of state-owned banks but should our attention now turn to the councils who are selling off their property assets to balance their books?
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Do the maths
Regarding the suggestion that schools should have a longer day to save space (28 January, page 9), most secondary schools already have to offer sessional lunch breaks in order to accommodate all pupils into the hall
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CommentBack on track
I don’t think that Building gives enough weight to the personal commitment of Lord Coe to provide an athletics venue at the heart of the East End (Building blog, 25 January)
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CommentThe Markit/CIPS survey provides cheer for construction – but take it with a pinch of salt
How much of the increase in activity is carried over from a snow-bound December?
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CommentBribery Act unlikely to be watered down despite delay
Construction firms should put anti-bribery policies in place as soon as they can
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Public Procurement: Mears vs Leeds city council
This case illustrates the full meaning of the term, “the date when grounds for the bringing of the proceedings first arose”, and serves as a warning to parties within a public tendering process who wish to bring infringmement proceedings.
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CommentHold your nerve
When appearance is everything, taking work at any price becomes a tempting but risky solution. But signs of recovery suggest there’s no need to panic, says Richard Steer
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CommentOpen mike: How to draw our way out of jail
Prison design is not something most people think of as a tool to prevent reoffending. But, says Chris Liddle, it can play a crucial role in education and rehabilitation
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CommentNakheel creditors bite their tongues
UK consultants are loathe to criticise the Dubai developer despite being owed $250m
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CommentQatar's World Cup will be a logistical nightmare
Qatar spend millions on PR to secure the 2022 World Cup, now it needs to spend billions on construction to make it happen
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CommentHousebuilding needs to learn the lessons of the 1930s
In the 1930s we built around 300,000 homes a year in the face of a worldwide recession. Why are things so different this time around?
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CommentConstruction probably didn’t shrink 3.3% in the final quarter…at least we don’t know that it did
The government may have smart people but they’re making estimates on incomplete data from a volatile industry
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CommentHow do you solve a problem like the Olympic Stadium?
Poor decisions by the ODA leave legacy bosses with Hobson’s choice over future of the £496m stadium
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CommentBSF legal battle: learn the lessons
This week’s court fight over the scrapping of BSF should sound a note of caution to the government over its future school building policy
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CommentCut throat tender pricing
Inflation is soaring so why are tender prices not doing the same. Our guest QS blogger explains why
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CommentChecking the subcontract: Walter Llewellyn & Sons vs Excel Brickwork
This case began with allegations of damage to timber-frame buildings but became a fight about whether the subcontract provided for arbitration