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Inbox: Intelligence briefing
Three readers watch the state, another takes surveillance photos and a fifth tries to decipher Building
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Kinetics
Venues: The Gherkin, the Boleyn pub and the Riverside Chinese restaurant Topics: Corporate hospitality, Glen Medeiros, the fall of Connaught, Ian Dury Drinks: One bottle of La Cote Blanche Sancerre 2009, one gin and tonic, 15 pints of Guinness, 14 bottles of lager
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CommentPre-action disclosure in arbitration: Travelers Insurance vs Countrywide Surveyors
This case hinged on whether the court could order documents to be disclosed when the parties were subject to an arbitration agreement
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CommentOsborne establishes his green credentials
It’s a pleasant surprise to see the government backing the low-carbon agenda
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CommentHansom : The bestiary
Strange creatures stalk the diary page this week, including a giraffe on a desert island, a disorganised German organisation and a construction professional who made all the girls swoon
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Common mistakes in... the design development process
In the second in a series on dos and don’ts on major projects, Iain Suttie discusses the design development process and where it can all go horribly wrong
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Bullying the adjudicator: Nice guys finish last
Some parties in a dispute think they can win a case by bullying and abusing the adjudicator. And you know what? They might be right …
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Outsourcing abroad: Indian takeaway
Why spend huge amounts of in-house time, money and resources on paperwork when outsourcing firms in countries like India have specialist teams to do it for you?
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CommentBuying an insolvent firm: Risky assignment
Buying an insolvent firm to take over its contracts is a job for experts. The reason is that there is no guarantee that the other parties to those contracts will let you do the work
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CommentBalance of terror
Our thanks to Nigel Barrett for this picture of daily life on a south London trading estate.
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CommentRead our online Spending Review debate
Readers put their questions to the industry experts debating the implications of the governement’s Spending Review
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CommentRonson, Pidgley and Kerslake anticipate 5 years of housing gloom
Predictions from panelists at Movers & Shakers breakfast are as cold as the weather following yesterday's CSR
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CommentAt least Crossrail is going ahead (slowly)
The London rail link will arrive three years late, and there’s a steep decline in health capital spending.
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CommentIs the CSR the first step to dismantling social housing?
We know funding for housing has been savaged, but how will the money that is available be allocated and what direct effect that will it have on the number of homes built?
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CommentRICS on the Spending Review
RICS director of external affairs comments on the controversial government announcement
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CommentSpending Review: Industry reaction
Find out what the construction industry thinks of George Osborne’s Spending Review
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Comment£10 billion less public cash for capital spending in second half of this financial year
New figures on public sector finances suggest that capital spending is already being squeezed
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CommentLive blog: Spending Review 2010
George Osborne’s announcement on spending cuts has taken place. Read the highlights on our blog
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'It will be a sombre return to market': Dan Labbad on the spending review
Lend Lease regional CEO says the property industry won’t be able to rely on ’silver bullet’ sectors for growth in the near future
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CommentHalving housing spend? We'll be lucky
Sources suggest tomorrow’s spending review will be accompanied by a radical review of how affordable housing is paid for, with central funding cut by anything up to 80%