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CommentSite-time reading
Keith Pickavance reviews Hamish Lal's guide to winning your delay and disruption case
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Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ow
I am writing to inform you of a spelling mistake in your edition dated 2 April 2004.
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FeaturesTony no mates
Say hello to Tony. Tony is a prime minister. But Tony is sad, because even though he has lots of money and the kit for lovely new schools and hospitals, all his friends are too busy to help him to put them together. So Tony might not be ...
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Soundtracks of our lives
I was interested to read your Hansom story regarding the careers section of Gleeds' new website (2 April, page 25).
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CommentYou be the judge
Three weeks ago we posed a legal brainteaser and asked you to pass judgment. Here are three of the best answers we received and the question-setter's opinion – plus another problem to test your legal instincts
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Vital surface issues
This was an appeal by the claimant from the first instance decision dismissing a claim for damages arising from an accident. A child, K, was playing in a communal garden controlled by Portsmouth City Council. She tripped on stone in a gravel path leading to the garden and sustained an ...
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NewsHealthcare, but not as we know it
Architect HOK has designed a £22m diagnostic and treatment centre in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. The 8500 m2 building combines outpatient clinics with operating theatres and short-stay wards. A circular main entrance and a central concourse doubles as a waiting area and is designed to avoid the institutional feel of most healthcare ...
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The greatest story never told …
Mark Whitby's idea for a storyline in The Archers (2 April, page 10) is not the first from a design professional.
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NewsHere we go …
The landmark Wembley stadium arch is to be lifted within the next two weeks, according to a senior project source. The big lift has been delayed over the past few weeks as a result of faulty steel welds and some weak concrete discovered on one of the bases supporting the ...
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Give him an inch
If it is my chance to design a townhouse for the 21st century (2 April, page 46), why am I being briefed in square feet which we were supposed to have abandoned 30 years ago.
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FeaturesGherkin, interior
As the first Swiss Re office workers jostle for the best desks in Foster and Partners' cigar-shaped tower, Martin Spring takes a trip to the top and discovers the design tricks that make it the only green skyscraper in London.
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NewsFoster introduces Swiss Re to the world
Lord Foster this week compared the design of the newly completed Swiss Re tower to a bomber and one of Sir Christopher Wren's designs for St Paul's Cathedral.
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Higher wages transform workers' fortunes
Construction work begins to lose 'dirty hands' image as wage growth once again beats national average
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A fair slice of PI
The call from the Association of Consulting Engineers to change the laws relating to joint and several liability is a bold move (2 April, page 50) – even though such a bid to reduce the costs of professional indemnity insurance would not alleviate high premiums in the short term.
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Executive jailed for theft
A former marketing director at housebuilder Crest Nicholson has been jailed for nine months for stealing almost £45,000 from her employer.
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Festival of Europe
The British public may have ambivalent feelings about 10 new states joining the EU this week, but for the construction industry, which is crying out for skilled labour, it could be a godsend - if only a temporary one
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RICS demands English lessons for foreign workers on UK sites
The RICS has urged the construction industry to provide basic English lessons to workers who do not speak the language.