All Building articles in 2003 issue 30
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FeaturesTV Reviews
Building's critic-in-residence reviews a typical week's assortment of built environment programming
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Comment
Point taken, but …
I would like to thank Mr Merricks for taking the trouble to reply to my column (27 June, page 34).
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FeaturesPoor old you
More and more firms are reacting to deficits in their pension funds by, in effect, slashing their staff's retirement income. They say they are staving off financial disaster; others claim it is a grotesque rip-off. We investigate a deepening crisis.
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News
Six teams in race to win Olympics masterplan
The race to win a £1m Olympic Games masterplan is hotting up, with a decision on the successful candidate expected from the London Development Agency today.
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Comment
Margins schmargins
The writer of No leftovers (18 July, page 30) appears to be confused in comparing the margins in contracting with the margins obtained in the manufacturing industry.
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Comment
We're still learning
In response to the claim that project managers are not adequately trained (4 July, page 11), I would like to point out that the RICS has created the Project Management Faculty as part of its Agenda for Change.
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Comment
An impossible job
Peter Rogers' comments seem to be an extension of the debate held within each profession, where the absence of holistic knowledge of every other discipline is lamented.
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Comment
Problems can and will happen
The article "Whatever happened to Peabody's prefab?" (18 July, page 15) said that high winds and proximity to railway lines contributed to the delayed completion. This is not true.
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Comment
Gruel intentions
With the corporate killing bill on the way, should company directors be going on courses preparing them for a life of snout, slopping out and table tennis?
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CommentNo free lunches
Tony Bingham Lost an adjudication? Don't want to pay the adjudicator's fee? Tough. Pay up or risk getting sued – and if you are, you may well end up paying those costs, too
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Not much to look forward to
Last year a Building/Hays Montrose survey found that more than half of the magazine's readers were worried about their pensions. And they were right to be concerned.
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FeaturesWhy are we so fascinating?
Prime time slots are crowded with foppish designers, avuncular engineers, opinionated architects and diabolical builders. We find out what the attraction is, what the programmes are like, how they've changed the perception of building – and how you, too, can get your phizog on the box.
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Comment
A fan of John Prescott
Our Romanian carpenter was overjoyed to get a mention in letters (What do you expect?, 11 July, page 32) and has taken to reading Building on a regular basis.