All Building articles in 2003 issue 40
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Comment
Is it safe?
What do you do if you know you're going to win your claim, but can't convince the finance director to back you? Perhaps FATE will lend a hand …
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Comment
Radical thinking
While I agree with most of Geoffrey Osborne's comments, (1 August, page 28), he must remember profit is not the only criterion for judging the success of a company.
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News
Positive thinking on PFI
Unison and a TV programme are among those who have laid into PFI in recent weeks but contractors and the government have been quick to hit back - they say that PFIs are value for money and they say they can prove it.
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Comment
What's in a name?
A number of people have used your letters page to advocate a name change for the QS.
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Features
Local lowdown
The Celtic tiger economy has produced a boom in Ireland's residential sector. Robert Smith of Hays Montrose looks at the impact on salaries and benefits
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People in the know
It was refreshing to see in the techmeisters article (26 September, page 74) that the work of technology specialists is beginning to be valued.
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The perfect hat trick
For those in search of wide-brimmed headgear (5 September, page 35) take a tip from me.
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Comment
Keep off the green
One of your news stories (26 September, page 10) said that the Campaign to Protect Rural England claimed housebuilders were hoarding land in order to keep house prices high. We have made no such accusation.
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Features
Kunsthaus Graz: You sexy thing
Graz is celebrating its status as Europe’s capital of culture with a dazzling architectural display – and a British contribution is stealing the show. We visited Kunsthaus Graz, a shocking, sensuous, biomorphic art gallery designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier – and still found time to sample the city’s ...
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News
Whitehall threatens industry with on-the-spot safety fines
Government considers introduction of instant justice after pledging to invest £3m in roving reps scheme.
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Millennium villages face uncertain future
The future of the government's millennium village programme was in doubt after it emerged that a review was being undertaken by regeneration quango English Partnerships
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The green lobby wants low energy, sustainable, recyclable ecohomes:
is this what they have in mind?We report on the escalating demands of the environmental pressure groups
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DTI launches recruitment drive for quality mark
The government has launched a regional drive to recruit members to its quality mark scheme, which aims to rid the industry of rogue traders.
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Features
Deoxyribonucleic lighting
This astonishing concept of mirrors coiled into a DNA-type helix and floated in mid-air was intended to sex-up the Albert Hall's restaurant. But constructing it proved so complex that Arup was called in to check it could work.
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Features
In Person: Dennis Lenard
Trust an antipodean to want to turn everything upside down. But the new chief executive of Constructing Excellence thinks that's what we have to do to change the industry's image – and he's starting with a fundamental review of his own organisation. We spoke to the man who thinks Australian.
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David Curry
Left-wing think tanks are keen to make the government's housing policy as interventionist as possible. But tampering with inheritance tax would be political suicide
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Comment
Horses for courses
Dominic Helps raises the issue of adjudicators seeking technical assistance ("Justice au naturel", 8 August, page 41).
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Features
Smile … things couldn't be worse
After the slow death of the London office market and month after month of steadily worsening statistics, developers in the commercial sector are suddenly feeling a rush of confidence … We find out why