More Comment – Page 639
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CommentDoing the House work
The DTI wants action, but it's not down to the DTI or the industry lobbyists. MPs must rule on the Construction Act review - if they can find the time
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CommentFight the flab
Want to slim down the social housing bill? Just form a consortium of social landlords to procure work collectively, then sit back and watch the pounds fall off …
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CommentAn unlikely story
According to the JCT, certifiers are supposed to be impartial even though they're being paid by the client. So does anyone on Planet Earth believe that they are?
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How to be clever
Intellectual property rights are vital to ensure you can exclusively exploit a technology or design, but how do you ensure you've got the right level of protection?
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CommentThis Iranian job of yours
If the UN punishes Iran for its nuclear activities, UK firms out there could suffer. Here's how to limit the damage
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CommentWe need closure
PFI is being undermined by delays in bringing valuable deals to financial close. Perhaps the answer is to bring in an impartial project manager to resolve disputes
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Building unfair to Mowlem
I would like to express my distaste at your depiction of Mowlem staff versus those of Carillion on the cover and feature in Building dated 3 March.
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Pack it in
I fully agree with David Brown's comments on the home information packs. Nick Raynsford's thinking, along with the government's in general, is flawed in respect of this legislation.
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Nothing standard about it
Retentions have been a hot topic in the construction industry for a number of years.
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Lighten up, Alex
After Alex Brett's letter last week (3 March "My bloody Valentine"), I can't wait to hear his reaction to the "How to survive an office romance" article featured in the same issue.
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Bingham back at school
Tony Bingham's typically tongue-in-cheek "nursery school" article, (3 March) was in fact a serious commentary on the recent all-day conference held by the DTI to try to repair some holes in the otherwise successful adjudication provisions, now some eight years old. There were 150 industry "all sorts" invited to inform ...
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Watch where you're pointing that
Building's last "At your service" set of legal questions and answers (3 March) very helpfully summarised changes in the JCT98 standard form.
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The land of smiles and mass protest
An extract from Building journalist Nick Jones' Bangkok blog …
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CommentIn the detail
Can you identify this building to win a bottle of Quinto do Vale D.Maria 1999 gold medal-winning port and a £25 drinks voucher, courtesy of door manufacturer Vicaima?
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CommentTime to Cannes MIPIM
MIPIM started as a harmless chance to swap business cards in the sun. That was before it all got out of hand, with parties and the rise of the sinister ‘Organisers'
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CommentIndustrial terrorism
When Montpellier abandoned its contract to build an animal testing laboratory for Oxford University 18 months ago, it was seen as an isolated incident.
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CommentThai twiglets
Our thanks to Mike Catterall of Adams Johns Kennard for this photo demonstrating precarious south-east Asian improvisation.
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CommentConsider Horbury
Politicians constantly scrutinise the cost of the public sector building programme - the biggest in our lifetime - but how closely do they examine design standards?