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How to sing like a canary
The Office of Fair Trading is putting firms who operate cartels in a dilemma: do they keep shtoom and hope nobody finds out – or blow the whistle first?
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CommentGo back to square one
The law dealing with negligence and defective buildings is a mess, and every time the courts look at it, they make things worse. We need to start again …
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NewsMace director quits to set up fit-out firm with old boss
Operations director Matt Bray leaves after six months to start Paragon Management with ex-Bellwater chief
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Arcadis set to buy consultant AYH for £16m
International consultant Arcadis has made a recommended offer to buy UK quantity surveyor and project manager AYH for £16m.
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Bingham bashing
I was the architect involved in the case that Tony Bingham wrote about in his article “Too much to ask for” (27 May, page 48).
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Nice NEC does it
Ann Minogue (27 May, page 47) wrote: “At last, someone has produced a consultancy agreement that applies the same terms for each member of the team.”
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Conspiracy theory
Stephen Ratcliffe, chief executive of the Construction Confederation, suggests that my article on the ailing CSCS scheme amounts to an outlandish conspiracy theory (20 May, page 17).
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Standard bearer
I find it difficult to understand why Alan Thomas (Letters, 29 April, page 39) doesn’t think the BRE certification scheme could work for modern methods of construction, particularly as he quotes Peter Hewlett’s paper detailing the methodology of the British Board of Agrément’s approval scheme.
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When the wind doesn’t blow
You have asked for opinions on starting a new nuclear power station program (20 May, page 13).
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English: a construction skill
Your feature on immigration from the new entrants to the European Union (20 May, pages 26-29) chimes with the findings of the RICS’ UK construction industry survey earlier this year.
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CommentFlexibility is your friend
Flexible working and construction aren’t natural stablemates. Job-sharing or part-time professionals are by and large an anathema, and paid leave for new fathers and mothers is often no more than the statutory minimum.
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Prescott targets suppliers in drive to cut housing costs
Deputy prime minister indicates that bills for labour and plant are too high and need to be ‘sorted out’
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Firms shortlisted for £200m affordable homes cash
A number of leading housebuilders are understood to have been shortlisted for the government’s £200m pilot competition to give private developers social housing grants.
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FeaturesComing soon in 3D
In the world of 3D computing, architects and engineers have benefited from having their own software, whereas contractors have gone without – until now. We take a look at Virtual Construction and asks how likely the people it’s aimed at are to use it
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NewsBidders slam £60,000 house competition
The second stage of the government’s competition to build a home for £60,000 has been criticised for placing “ridiculous” demands on bidders
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NewsLend Lease in £270m swoop for Crosby Homes
Bovis set to re-establish link with housing as Australian parent buys regeneration specialist from Berkeley Group
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NewsGalloway on the warpath
The left-wing political party led by George Galloway MP is stepping up pressure on Tower Hamlets council in east London, where he was elected last month, to suspend plans over social housing
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Foster acquires office space but denies expansion plans
Foster and Partners has denied that it is expanding the size of its practice, despite taking on extra office space next to its Battersea headquarters.
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NewsCity of the future
Reid Architecture has unveiled images of its £90m regeneration project in Birmingham, involving the demolition and redevelopment of Edgbaston shopping centre, owned by Calthorpe Estates.