Opinion – Page 331
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Q+A from the Building forum
Building’s Forum members will offer advice on all sorts of dilemmas
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Wonders & blunders with Greg Lomas
Greg Lomas marvels at 18th-century stone shelters in Italy, but derides a restaurant in south-west Africa
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CommentNationwide joins other indexes to show house prices falling
House prices may be on the slide but there shouldn't be another collapse
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CommentA break in the clouds for construction's smaller firms
New surveys provide more evidence of a strong second quarter for building firms
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Video: London 2012 venues under construction
Watch Tim Crocker’s stunning film of London’s 2012 Olympic venues
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CommentGreen 2012 expertise in danger of being lost
Government departments must harness the sustainable expertise gained from building the 2012 London Olympics
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CommentShepherd Construction’s court victory and why it matters
One of the lawyers acting for the winning party looks at what this case means for those assessing extension of time claims
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CommentDid construction really propel the UK economy this spring?
What were the factors behind the 6.6% growth in construction output in the second quarter?
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CommentConstruction Growth Drives Economic Recovery? Really?
ONS said that GDP in 2010 Q2 grew at double the rate that macroeconomic forecasters were anticipating and that the main driver was construction... really?
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CommentThe times they have a-changed
When the head of construction at John Lewis says competitive tendering gets projects done for 10% less than partnering, it’s clear the paradigm has shifted
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CommentThe beggar’s banquet
The Scottish courts have expressed their opinion about whether the loser of an adjudication has to pay the winner if that winner appears to be on Carey Street
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CommentClarification: Public spending on construction
How much public cash has actually been spent on construction?
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Schools out for tender
It’s a new order for those involved in building schools after the coalition’s savage cutbacks. But the changes should bring opportunities for smaller contractors
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Hidden agenda: the weakness of adjudication
Because it takes place in private, adjudication is preventing judges from developing construction law - and lawyers aren’t improving the contracts they draft
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CommentHow does the state imagine?
The next decade is going to reinterpret, reorganise and abolish much of our familiar world, so we’ll need creative thinking from government. Which could be a problem
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CommentQuentin Shears: Free schools and the Continuity PTA
’They’re already looking at sites, trying to work out how many kids you can fit in an abandoned Zavvi’
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Hansom: Fruit loops
Though life’s no bowl of cherries for construction, our resilient colleagues have been going bananas on the 2012 site, tapping away on BlackBerries and spilling raspberry juice over a top chef’s kitchen
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Schools are too expensive ...
The number of people involved and the massive fees that are paid, no wonder the cost of the schools is off the scale