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CommentEvery city is also a history book
So it’s a shame that architects have forgotten how to read them, because they speak volumes about their profession. Yes, Robert Adam’s seven deadly sins has moved on to ignorance …
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CommentMinimum damage: Liquidated damages
Liquidated damages are often fought over, but rarely understood. Here’s a guide to the pitfalls to avoid when trying to claim them …
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CommentIn banks we trust: Project bank accounts
One reason disputes turn nasty is that the payee suspects that the payer is coming up with spurious excuses not to pay. Luckily, there’s something we can do about this
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Existential matters: Novation
It is not always easy to tell whether a novation has taken place. Here’s a case that ended up in court because one side swore blind that the contract had been novated
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Lifetime commitment
I was bemused by Ian Ellingham’s “open mike” column (23 October, page 33)
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A matter of life and death
I found your article “Manslaughter rules could ‘signal end’ for small firms” (30 October, page 11) fascinating
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A valueless tax
I was somewhat surprised to read your article on false self-employment in construction (2 October, page 15)
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The war on time
In the field of time management the construction industry is now in the same position as it was with quantity surveying at the start of the 20th century: we have no standards to work to, no training and no qualifications for those who do it. It should be no surprise, ...
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Cut out the middle man
I’m writing in reference to the recruitment agencies fined for price fixing (2 October, page 10)
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H & S Blunders
Last week, in the wake of two letters questioning the appropriateness of our pictures of health and safety blunders, we ran a web poll asking if the series should continue
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CommentThey know how to use the sky box
That’s just one of the benefits of having children. But the struggle to combine work and reproduction is rewarding, exhausting and different for everybody
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CommentBuilding buys a pint: The interiors group
“Do you watch Little Britain?” Adrian demands as I sit down. “Who does he look like? Go on, guess!”
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Orders figures continue to point to a rougher road ahead
For those poring over the latest new orders figures released today to find guidance on the future of construction activity I suspect there is something for the optimists, but rather more for the pessimists.It must be said that trying to discern sensible insight from examining the orders figures month by ...
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Growing evidence of double dip collapse for construction
The latest round of trade survey data points to an ugly acceleration in the rate of collapse of workloads.Persistent sightings of green shoots over the late spring and summer now look to have been little more than a mirage.The construction trade survey compiled by the Construction Products Association says the ...
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CommentAfter the goldrush
The head of one British consultant in Dubai confessed that he will be using Indian QSs in the near future, many of whom will operate from the Subcontinent
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Bingham bites back
The Office of Fair Trading’s response to my column (23 October, page 30) condemns the OFT
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Get over it
What is all the fuss about over these OFT fines (Hays fumes 2 October, page 10)?