All Inbox articles – Page 10

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    A cry for help

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    The government must do more to help the housing market.

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    Bravo Bingham

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Tony Bingham’s regular articles often make a lot of sense, but his article on ditching the training levy (8 August, page 43) seemed to have even more sense per column centimetre than usual.

  • Gulf Facilities
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    Gulf facilities management: Keeping up appearances

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    The Gulf states were slow to catch on to the need for facilities management, but now the market is in overdrive. Katie Puckett presents a five-step guide to getting a piece of the action

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    Reinventing the horse

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    What is the best way to do R&D?

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    No excuses

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    The government has taken considerable flak for its plans to reduce Health and Safety Executive (HSE) funding, but the construction industry mustn’t this as an excuse for rising accident and death rates. After all, this is an industry-wide responsibility.

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    In the detail

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?

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    No company for QSs

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Further to Jon De Maria’s assumption that both he and the cockroaches will be left standing after an apocalypse (Inbox, 25 January, page 30), I regret to inform him that if the apocalypse is of the nuclear type, he will surely be standing alone.

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    What’s changed?

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Having just read an article by Rupert Choat (16 November, page 80), my mind returned to a report compiled by the late John Huxtable.

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    The softly, softly approach

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Regarding the article “Housebuilders scramble to tackle credit crunch crisis” (18 January, page 9), while it is right that all organisations – clients, housebuilders, local authorities – have a focus on cost reduction, it is important to consider how best to go about it.

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    Old school

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Presumably the Wren Academy (23 November, page 54) will be busing in children from all over who suddenly discover an urge to learn about the built environment.

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    Smoke without fire

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    There is great speculation about the causes of the warehouse fire in Atherstone, Warwickshire, last month. Some of this is inappropriate and inaccurate, and seeks to make commercial gain by linking the untimely deaths of the firefighters with aspects of the construction.

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    Correction

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Thank you for your article written on our project based in Andover, entitled “BedZed’s Baby” (housing supplement, 23 November, page 36).

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    A bit rich for a lawyer …

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Despite my respect for John Redmond, I find his complaint that adjudicators’ fees are too expensive a bit rich (16 November, page 77). This is because, in my experience, the increase in the cost of adjudication is due almost entirely to the influence of lawyers.

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    The TA needs you …

    2007-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Great article about the Territorial Army and the insight into what it offers. I recently joined and wish I had done so years ago.

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    Work jollies

    2007-07-13T00:00:00Z

    I was interested to read your recent Building Buys a Pint with the networking organisation, Forum for the Built Environment (29 July, page 34-35). The topics ranged from the smoking ban to the hirsute nature of women in property and construction.

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    Do we need more housing?

    2007-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Your leader (29 June, page 3) called for a national hearts-and-minds campaign to explain the need for extra housing. It might help if you first questioned whether there really is such a need.

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    In the detail

    2007-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?

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    Quite a bind

    2007-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Your last editorial had a number of good suggestions for increasing the rate of housebuilding. I have another – easier removal of covenants restricting development. I have a large site adjacent to my house that has planning permission for a detached house. My neighbours have a covenant that restricts each ...

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    The research is on

    2007-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Regarding your leader article “An Invisible Crisis” (4 May, page 3), I agree that the government has abandoned research investment over the past 10 years.

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    Can I correct a couple of things

    2007-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Your diary item Passport to Nowhere (13 April, page 31), makes a few mistakes about the proposed network of passport interview offices.