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Off-site really is the answer
So the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) is launching a drive to boost the private rental sector. As residential property prices fall, rental yields are starting to look more attractive to investors and pension funds, so the opportunity is there for the taking
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The usual victims
The Verry debacle (8 May, page 24) is just the same old, same old – look at Eugena, Wiltshire and the others. Who gets hurt? Yes, you guessed it, the “specialist trade contractor” and the small subbie
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More egg baskets required
I worked for Taylor Woodrow International from 1975 to 1980 in various parts of the world and its geographic and sectoral diversification was one of its greatest strengths
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Ten into six doesn’t go
It was a shame to see that CNP has become the first big-name QS/project management casualty. At the end of the day consultants are all about people and my sympathy goes out to all who have and will lose their jobs, shareholdings, and so on. Consultants have been hanging in ...
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CommentArchitects, take a bow
Prince Charles didn’t say he’d employ Lord Foster to make over Highgrove – that would really have been a great way to make up with the modernists
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CommentWhat price victory? Winning back legal costs
You’ve won a legal battle so it’s only reasonable you get your costs reimbursed, isn’t it? Ah, if only it were that simple
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CommentTime and punishment: Interest on unfair debt
If you don’t pay a legitimate debt, you are liable for interest on top. That’s only fair. But what if the creditor was at fault in some way, or the invoice was wrong?
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Fancy a change? How to be an expert witness
If you’ve just been made redundant, it might be time to consider a career as an expert witness. Here are a few tips to get you started …
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NewsDas Capital: Linz music theatre
Construction began this week on the €117.6m (£106m) Linz Neues Musiktheatre in Linz, the European Capital of Culture 2009
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Developers commit to world’s largest off-shore wind farm
The developers behind plans for the London Array, the world’s largest off-shore wind farm in the Thames estuary, have said the project will go ahead after months of speculation over its future
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NewsBovis boss: government spending lifeline is failing
Chief executive Pollard says spending having little effect as he announces restructuring and redundancies
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NewsPhase Brum: Building's networking club in Birmingham
More than 150 young construction professionals turned out last Thursday for Building’s Phase One networking event in Birmingham
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TrustMark begs for state funding
The chief executive of TrustMark, the scheme launched four years ago to protect consumers against cowboy builders, has appealed to the government for more funding to keep the initiative afloat during the recession
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NFB urges council framework rethink
The National Federation of Builders is launching a campaign challenging councils’ exclusion of small firms from their framework schemes
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NewsDown by the water: Tower Hamlets homes
Tower Hamlets council has granted planning permission for these 121 canal-side dwellings, to be built on the site of a former business centre
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NewsFrench Polish: Galleria Pomorska, Bydgoszcz
London-based Colman Architects has released its proposed design for the upgrade of the Galleria Pomorska in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz
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NewsBlacklist victims to help draft anti-discrimination rules
Workers set to tell government to ban firms that used the blacklist from public projects
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FeaturesTrustMark: a £22k tale of horror
This is the story of a man who gave a TrustMark-registered firm £22k to renovate his home. What he got for his money was two weeks’ worth of work, three years of hell and a wrecked house. But how did the builder keep its reassuring logo?
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FeaturesSchool acoustics: Can you hear me at the back?
Teachers are being drowned out, education is suffering, and yet acoustics in schools seem to be getting worse, not better. Stephen Kennett reports on a rules review that could change the way we build