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    … And Taylor on Knowles

    2010-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Further to the article by Malcolm Taylor (no relation) in Building (22 October, page 33) regarding his dissatisfaction with the RICS, I was interested in the follow-up letter by the much respected Roger Knowles (29 October, page 27) and his effort to entice more QSs to join his breakaway organisation. ...

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    Let’s play associations

    2010-12-03T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest your article on specialists (19 November, page 36) and would respectfully point out that at least six companies in your fit-out category are NAS members, including ISG Retail, and are most certainly not subcontractors as your opening header suggests. I would also point out that they ...

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    Inbox special advisers

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Tony Pidgley, Caroline Buckingham and John Bale take the government aside for a bit of a chat

  • Osborne is counting on something like £100bn of private finance for home improvements over the next 10 years
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    Home improvements

    2010-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Regarding the article “Osborne’s axe fells schools and housing” (22 October, page 9), you’re right that we’re going to need to attract a huge amount of private sector finance into the refurbishment of our existing housing stock over the next decade

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    In the detail

    2010-10-29T00:00:00Z

    On first analysis, it looks as though capital spending has borne the brunt of the cuts to next year’s Scottish budget announced in the UK spending review.

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    There is another way

    2010-10-29T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest the article by Malcolm Taylor in Building (22 October, page 33). His dissatisfaction with the RICS expresses the feelings of many of its QS members.

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    Inbox: Intelligence briefing

    2010-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Three readers watch the state, another takes surveillance photos and a fifth tries to decipher Building

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    Rudi was right ...

    2010-10-15T00:00:00Z

    The penultimate paragraph of Stuart Pemble’s article “Have I really been negligent?” (8 October, page 73) leads me to the view that he is wrong and Rudi Klein is, as usual, right

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    Was Rudi right?

    2010-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Every now and then Rudi Klein makes a worthwhile and original point, but his article “You’ve been warned” (17 September 2010, page 57) is not such an occasion.

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    Disarming deathtraps

    2010-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Jennifer Deeney’s tragic story makes sobering reading, as does Tony Bingham’s article on the wall collapse (1 October). They emphasise the fact that freestanding walls can be deathtraps.

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    Belfast's new troubles

    2010-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Regarding the planned spending cuts in Northern Ireland, if ministers would get some sort of PPP in place to fill the public sector funding void, privatise water and other public bodies and sort out the planning system, the cuts would not be so severe

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    Train to win

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Tony Bingham has been a long-time critic of the levy system so it was disappointing, but not surprising, that his recent article “Feeling a little short changed?” repeated the arguments against CITB-ConstructionSkills currently being used by the Federation of Plastering and Drywall Contractors

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    In the loophole

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Absolute jokers …

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    A little less conversation

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    If housing minister Grant Shapps is so confident about his housebuilding incentive scheme (1 October, page 12), will he now explain why the details of how it will work have yet to see the light of day?

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    Must-see TV

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Christopher Hare snapped these two committed couch potatoes trying to fit a TV aerial in a rainy London Bridge. Clearly the television schedules must have improved since we last looked …

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    Long live RSLs

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Oh dear Mr Shapps! What an ill-conceived comment about housing association “fat cat” pay

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    Green gauge

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Exactly how the Green Investment Bank will be funded and managed continues to be up for debate but there is only so much longer this can go on before the “greenest government ever” gets a reputation for being all talk and no action

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    Game on

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    If ever there was a lesson on preparation and pre-planning, the Delhi Commonwealth Games provides the most apt

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    In the steps of Duncan Wallace

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Rudi Klein asserted that “traditional procurement methods are so needlessly wasteful that a consultant or solicitor who advises a client to adopt them may be guilty of negligence”

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    Because you're worth it

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Chris Cheshire has hit the nail right on the head with his comments about low quotes (17 September, page 10)