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New buildings in Haiti not safe, charities warn
Buildings under construction in Haiti will not be able to resist future earthquakes, experts have said, writes Roxane McMeeken.
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HSE fears cuts will make it ‘reactive’
The Health and Safety Executive has warned that it may be forced to abandon preventative work if its resources are cut after the election, despite the fear of more deaths when building work picks up.
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Bleak and tortured: Kapoor's Orbit is hardly an Olympic ideal
London’s newly unveiled Olympic sculpture has been lambsated by a wave of criticsm and bad publicity. Does it deserve it?
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NewsJarvis: At last it’s all over
Jarvis was building a name for itself in the railway sector, until the 2000 Potters Bar accident. Eight years later, the business has finally come off the rails
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FeaturesSpecialist costs steel and concrete
The structures trades have been some of the hardest hit by the recession. Simon Rawlinson and Mark Lacey of Davis Langdon examine how specialist contractors and the supply chain have faced up to the challenges
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CommentElectronic disclosure: Paying lawyers to look at porn
Because they get into a court case and have to disclose all kinds of electronic documents, no matter how embarrassing. And the cost of doing that can be spectacular. David Rogers and Debika Ray report on a growing problem
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CommentWhat politicians really think
It is in a government’s nature to cut capital spending before public revenue. But the Charter 284 cause can be served by appealing to politicians’ worst instincts
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CommentWonders & blunders
Richard Steer is staggered by an extraordinary structure built for the last Olympics, but is worried that London’s efforts will be blighted by its industrial past
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Olympic legacy body wins role in sale of £1bn athletes’ village
The Olympic Park Legacy Company has won a role overseeing the development and sale of the £1bn 2,800-home athletes’ village after the 2012 Games
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NewsNew uniform
Contractor James and Taylor has won the job to clad Greater Manchester Police’s new £63m headquarters
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Vote with your trolleys
Starting tomorrow morning, my usual trip to Tesco will now be to one of their competitors (“Tesco sends design and QS work to India”, 12 March, page 13)
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Loyalty discarded
A bit short-sighted from Tesco. Most of its current business is in UK and it does place a strong emphasis on its loyalty cards so presumably it believes in loyalty – or am I a bit naive? I will go somewhere else for my shopping in future.George Smith
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Nobody was left
Complaining about Tesco’s outsourcing of its suppliers, architects and surveyors reminds me of the poem by the German pastor Martin Niemöller, First They Came, in which he tells how he failed to speak up when the Nazis took away communists, then trade unionists, and then Jews because he was none ...
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CommentOther Jarvises
You may have noted in the press that the rail maintenance company Jarvis Plc has announced that it is going into administration. We wish to make it known that Jarvis Group Limited has no connections, business or otherwise, with the above named company
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Missing Scotland
We are disappointed that the Scottish government’s call for a programme of accelerated capital spending of some £350m in the Budget has not been answered
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Budget blues
Two years ago they removed the tax relief available for building factories, roads, railways, airports – that is, industrial building allowances
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Small is beautiful
I have noticed the adverts in Building for the Good Employer Guide you will be publishing in October. I think it’s a real shame you limit entry to firms employing at least 30 UK-based professional staff, and I feel you are missing a trick here
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Keep it clean
As someone who swears too much and is not proud of it, I agree with Chris Winks’ letter (5 March, page 27) about unnecessary swear words being printed in Building