All Comment articles – Page 342
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CommentFoster's flying circus grounded: Thames Estuary airport
Plans for an airport on the Thames Estuary have been around almost since the invention of the airplane. So let’s not get too carried away by the latest reincarnation, says Alastair Stewart
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CommentUp in the air
If you can navigate the frameworks, compliance standards and demanding clients, aviation is a lucrative sector to be in
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CommentWhat skills will SMEs need to prepare for the Green Deal?
The first report has been published on the skills needed for Green Deal retrofits, and Mark Farrar explains what this means for SMEs
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CommentSix tests for the Green Deal
If you put the Green Deal through six tests for a policy’s success, it fails on all counts
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CommentBrownfield tax relief: The £1bn U-turn
Ben de Waal, of Aecom company Davis Langdon, looks at the implications for developers of this week’s decision to retain tax relief for brownfield regeneration
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CommentAngling for trouble
Using a ladder should be fairly straightforward, but here’s how to really complicate things …
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CommentRainy Sky vs Kookmin Bank: Common sense prevails
Be reassured that commercial agreements you make will be upheld in a common sense way by the courts, as demonstrated by the Supreme Court’s recent decision on this case
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CommentNo Christmas cheer from the ONS new orders figures
Numbers up in the third quarter but still on a downward path on a yearly basis
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CommentThat rare thing: Hope
The government has proven that it recognises the crucial part construction can play in economic recovery
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CommentMy Digital Life…John Marriott
There’s no going halfway for this project manager - everything is done quickly and in large volumes!
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CommentDeeds: Signed, sealed, delivered
Deeds hark back to the time of Dickens and used to be delivered by hand. But how do they work in the 21st century? A recent case reveals the answer
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CommentGreen Deal proposals: Deal or no deal?
The government wants to reduce our utility bills and cut emissions at no cost to itself. Its answer is the Green Deal, published last week: get private investors to offer loans to pay for insulation. So what kind of reaction have the proposals received?
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CommentWonders and blunders with Joe Griffiths
Joe Griffiths wants to keep New York’s precious Chrysler Building firmly in his sights but had a lucky escape from London’s equivalent of the gateway to Mordor, Archway Tower
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CommentAutumn statement response: A step forward but where to?
Quite a package of interventions but an overall infrastructure vision is still missing, says Richard Threlfall, KPMG’s UK head of infrastructure
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CommentAutumn statement response: New ways of raising the readies
Of real interest is what the chancellor said about funding, says Simon Rawlinson, head of strategic research & insight at EC Harris
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CommentHansom: Do pay attention
This week an energy minister and architects’ board make glaring slip-ups, but there’s no room for error in one firm’s ‘grand opening’. Elsewhere, employees strive towards perfectly sustainable homes
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Inbox: News analysis
Readers interpret recent news of government funding for housing and architects’ unemployment
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CommentAiming for zero (carbon)
The government is consulting on the feed-in tariff cut, but Dan Jestico says it should also be asking the industry for views on how non-domestic buildings can be zero carbon by 2019
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CommentCarillion vs Smith: Don't take part if you don't agree
If you don’t think an adjudication should take place, don’t just go ahead with it - either press pause or get out altogether
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CommentCarillion vs Smith: Adjudicating the same dispute
The principle that the same dispute cannot go to adjudication twice has just been upheld in the court, making it clear that simply repackaging the issues is not acceptable