All Letters articles – Page 73
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CommentThe balance of terror
Thanks to Trevor Harrison of MDA Consulting for this photograph of how they do things in Istanbul.
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Slow boats from China
Is it just me who is appalled by the rank hypocrisy shown by Bill Dunster ("Dunster set to build 1000 eco homes a year in London", 19 May, page 13)?
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Has Ray Ratnered himself?
I was less than surprised that a self-opinionated person such as Ray O'Rouke made such comments but was still surprised that he would be stupid enough to make them in a public forum.
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Not just a site issue
It is a great pity to read about comments such as Ray O'Rourke's regarding the role of women on site; it is however a view I have heard expressed many times and from people of equal standing in the industry.
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Ray and the women
On behalf of the membership of the National Association of Women in Construction I would like to record how appalled we were at Ray O'Rourke's comments (19 May, page 14).
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The enthusiasts' revolution
Sir David King's enthusiasm for nuclear power is taking us back into the mainframe trap.
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The mother of invention
Your article "For whom the (school) bell tolls", (28 April, page 24) raised the point that budget overruns associated with new academies can be attributed to extravagant and ill-considered design.
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Jumping is not the only option
It sounds like your anonymous architect contributor's problem was chairmanship. If he was the chairman (he doesn't say who was), the solution was in his own hands - control the meeting.
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Who was that masked misogynist
I read with interest your anonymous article on design team meetings (12 May, page 38) and came to the conclusion that your writer was male and a bit of a misogynist.
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A response to Ray
Ray O'Rourke claims that CITB-ConstructionSkills is failing in its efforts to attract young people to the industry (19 May, page 14). I'm more than happy to set the record straight.
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Willmott's women
I wonder if Ray O'Rourke works in the same industry as me? As the head of HR for another major contractor, I am very aware that the notion that a building site "is not a place where women fit" left our culture many years ago.
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83 workers, 0 CSCS cards
There is nothing new in anything Suzannah Nichol says about the ease of obtaining CSCS cards (21 April, page 46).
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How to build a successful city academy, part I
I have now seen three articles in Building identifying failed or overspent academy projects (13 April, 21 April and 5 May). I would like to redress the balance.
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CommentLeave school building to the professionals
Your articles "The big question" (13 April, page 30) and "For whom the (school) bell tolls" (28 April, page 24) highlight the problem schools face today. We have a government keen to improve the facilities in which we deliver education and learning for our children, and in my case grandchildren, ...
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The view from The Edge
A series of debates on the looming energy crisis has concluded that UK construction can lead the way in developing ‘Kyoto Plan B’.
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Flawed on floors
As a regular reader of Building I was particularly interested in the article "Recyled content" (31 March, page 71).
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A small, but important, omission
Thank you for publishing my letter about tax breaks for cleaning up contaminated land and buildings (12 May, page 37).