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Features
Head for the hills
This month, Experian Business Strategies predicts that construction growth will continue its slowdown – and explains why it’s better to be working in Yorkshire or the North than London
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NewsPersimmon’s founder and chairman to retire
Duncan Davidson, the founder and chairman of the UK’s biggest housebuilder Persimmon, is to retire next year at the age of 65
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FMB reports weak growth in 2005 workloads
Workload in the building industry is experiencing its slowest growth for six years, according to a Federation of Master Builders survey.
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Kier snatches top spot in March league table
Twenty-seven contracts worth £302m push contractor to pole position, ahead of Carillion and Laing O’Rourke
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CommentKick out the jams
The boss of Lend Lease’s European operations gives Britain’s next government some useful advice on how to keep its election promises
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NewsUrban guru plans US-style regeneration pilot
Prince Charles’ American urban design adviser wants to use an ODPM-backed regeneration initiative to demonstrate how a planning technique established in the US can improve the quality of life in Britain’s cities.
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CommentLet’s go shopping
The ‘Tesco law’ reforms would enable construction consultancies to become one-stop-shops, offering their clients legal advice. But will they do it?
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CommentA tense situation
Can the party defending an adjudication give new answers after proceedings have begun? Well, it seems that depends on the language used in the question …
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An old battleground
The hardy perennial of liquidated damages popped up again in a recent court action, which turned on whether the clause was a penalty, and unenforceable, or not
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CommentContext is everything
Contracts are not simply about the words on the page, as their meanings can be ambiguous and cause incorrect assumptions to be made. These cases prove that …
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Comment
Let’s not be hasty
I read the spat in your letters pages between Roger Knowles and Sarah Bourne on women in construction.
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Subbies of the world unite
In response to your question “Are specialists right to get tough?” (15 April, page 15) I am surprised that it has taken them this long.
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Comment
Blockheaded thinking
A recent issue published a letter from the president of the Brick and Block Association explaining that bricks and blocks were sustainable products (8 April, page 40).
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Comment
The Prince and the Peabody, part II
In light of your reference a while back to The Prince of Wales “loathing” BedZed and not caring about green building issues (Hansom, 7 January, page 23), I thought you would want to be aware for future reference that: The Prince of Wales has a well-documented passion for environmental concerns ...
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Comment
Beware the marketeer
Andrew Hill in his letter concerning revisions to PPG3 (April 15, page 40), dismissively and wrongly considered that local authorities do not have the ability to determine housing needs and will make prejudiced decisions.
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Comment
This kite won’t fly
The item on the early publication of a report by the government on modern methods of construction (8 April, page 24) refers to a “kitemark” scheme that is to be developed for MMC.