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CommentFreedom fighter: Toby Young interview
Author Toby Young is one of the first parents to try to found a free school - partly, it seems, in an effort to alienate as many architects as possible. Emily Wright asked him why
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CommentClients transferring risk: The bullies are back
The abuses and macho posturing we got from clients’ advisers in the nineties have returned - but given their attitude to risk, aren’t they the real wimps?
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Common mistakes in... agreeing final accounts
Berwin Leighton Paisner’s new series on “Dos and Don’ts” offers practical advice on navigating the major projects’ minefield, beginning with Catherine Barstow’s advice on organising your work so that you’re ready for the final account
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Prompt payment: The other credit crunch
The government is making it a rule that all firms on public sector contracts be paid promptly, all the way down the supply chain. Which will come as a bit of a shock to some
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CommentHansom: Move over Sherlock
Building’s supersleuth uncovers the truth behind celebrity interviews, appeals for help in identifying a missing person, tails the RICS/QS row and meets a double murderer
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CommentWhy I'm convinced by free schools: Free-range children
Now the dead hand of central government has been prised from our throats, we can build schools in a way that is excitingly new - and strangely old-fashioned
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The worst-laid plans
Your excellent Brickonomics blog entry (23 February, building.co.uk) highlights the sheer naivity of those putting forward this New Utopia planning system.
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CommentThe silent QSs
Are Building readers aware of the implications of the takeover of Davis Langdon by Aecom?
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CommentStorytime: Wilfred and the chisel
At Bristol’s Kingsdown Council school in 1946, I joined Mr Bowell’s woodwork class. He was a quietly-spoken man in a carpenter’s work coat
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Winds of change
I read with great interest the report published by Scottish Renewables, highlighting the huge potential for job creation in the offshore wind generation industry over the next decade.
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Turning the heat on fire report
In your article “Insurers call for urgent probe into timber-frame fire risk” (27 August, page 9) you state that the UK Timber Frame Association dismissed the findings of the government’s report on fire safety
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Count the costs
I read with interest the article by Mr Justice Akenhead (3 September, page 47)
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Don't look up
Rebecca Shorter is a member of the construction team at solicitor Cripps Harries Hall, who are “all big fans” of Building’s health and safety blunders.
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CommentInternational schools market: If you build it, they will buy it
If you want to carry on building schools for the future, develop a cheaper product that you can sell to poorer countries that are desperate for decent classrooms
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CommentMy digital life: Richard Nelson
Top picks from Watkins Gray Internationals business development director
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CommentBSF exclusivity agreements: More punishment to come
Companies whose schemes escaped the Building Schools for the Future cull should not bank on their exclusivity arrangements continuing unscathed
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CommentRGB vs SGL: NEC3 contract in dispute
This type of contract rarely ends up in court, so this case is useful guidance for parties and adjudicators
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CommentWonders & blunders with Jonathan Foyle
Jonathan Foyle adores the back-of-an-envelope creativity that led to Lincoln cathedral, but is worried about the people who move to the nascent city at Salford Quays
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CommentTips for contractors taking on Connaught jobs
The collapse of Connaught means many are looking into how its contracts can be novated or assigned, but there are a host of legal issue to consider first
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CommentWhat do consultants actually do?
Consultants need to explain in simple terms what they do to avoid being blamed for job losses and cut downs