All Letters articles – Page 68
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More than a short-term fix
I read with interest the article on health and safety training for foreign workers (25 August, page 24). At Six Two Training, we are offering CSCS courses for foreign workers in a variety of languages, including Polish, Russian and several others. Despite actively marketing the courses, the uptake has been ...
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CommentUpdating heritage
Constructing Excellence South West supports the 99% Campaign. I would be interested to have a discussion with someone about involving English Heritage in this process as I believe that listed buildings and buildings in conservation areas have a contribution to make.
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CommentWhat I saw on my holidays
Mark Nash of the Architects Design Group spied these workmen while holidaying in Budapest this summer. “No scaffolding, no harness, no margin for error,” he notes. Beautiful city though the Hungarian capital undoubtedly is, I doubt the view was worth it …
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Watch those lawyers
I have often been forced down the lawyer path of giving construction dispute advice with the preamble of “on the one hand, and on the other”, I was thus somewhat surprised to read that Helen Garthwaite (23 June, page 80) has the confidence to take a firm view.
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An uneven load
Tony Bingham’s article (25 August, page 44) was interesting but I wondered if Mr Moon had any responsibilities?
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All carrot, no stick: very green
I should like to register my support for Building’s 99% Campaign. For many years, I’ve been banging on about a whole-cost lending policy as a means of improving energy efficiency in older housing stock, but nobody ever listens.
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CommentThe amazing Spider Man!
Part 954 in our series “Health and Safety Blunders I Saw on my Holidays” …
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Annes memorial
As a former colleague I was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Anne Hemming. She was a thoughtful and stimulating public servant of the highest integrity.
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Help us train your future staff
Warwick School for Boys is a comprehensive for 600 11-to-16-year-olds in a deprived area of east London. We are applying for engineering college status, under the government’s specialist schools programme. We believe this will give our students a relevant education for the 21st century and develop a body of school ...
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CommentUnbalanced, unfair, ignorant
Many readers will have seen the Channel 4 documentary Dispatches on 14 August, which was the latest in a spate of media attacks on the private finance initiative.
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Im backing Jackson
Many councils seem to be trying to get energy policy right, and have written strict requirements in their Local Development Plans to achieve a high standard of sustainability and energy efficiency – often citing BREEAM and EcoHomes standards as the benchmark. Great, but the requirement will probably not apply to ...
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An open letter to Tim Byles
Dear Tim, congratulations on taking up the challenge of the £40bn Building Schools for the Future Programme (. I wish you most sincerely every success – our young people and the teaching staff do deserve better learning environments.
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Precast concrete has matured
While delighted that Bob Barlov of Pascall + Watson recognises that precast concrete is a robust, durable cladding material (7 July, page 90), I am disappointed that he has been allowed to criticise our industry with comments that are obsolete, ill-founded and unjustifiable.
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CommentDont do it, son!
Matt Bastone writes: “Like another recent contributor, I’ve just returned from St Petersburg, where I saw a repair being carried out to a rainwater downpipe. Access was gained by suspending a wooden platform beneath the overhang. As I took the photo the operative was being helped by his mates back ...
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A word in your ear
Belatedly following up on your 14 June issue, readers who feel that they have problems with alcohol or drugs would be well advised to phone one of these numbers:
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But on the other hand
Paul Jackson complains that the planners prevented him putting in double-glazed replacement windows in a Victorian house in a conservation area. Good! It’s not just the oversize plastic sections, it is also the blue tinted glass and the peculiar hollow in the reflections that make such windows look horridly out ...
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Window of opportunity
Paul Jackson is by no means the only homeowner to find that planners do not favour his efforts to reduce carbon emissions by upgrading his Victorian house in the Highbury conservation area in north London (4 August).
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CommentThe real story
Your news report on the Liverpool demolitions (4 August, page 19) misses the point. The significance of this story is that after weeks of intense negotiation the council has accepted its responsibility for ensuring good design.