Opinion – Page 406
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Going concern
The health and safety blunder photograph on 26 September (page 35) raised concerns for us.
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Community action
In response to Robert Adam’s article “They’re having you on” (26 September, page 36), I would like to draw Mr Adam’s attention to the Construction Emissions Community of Practice (CECoP), an inclusive group of practitioners brought together to develop a fair and transparent methodology to assess the initial impact of ...
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Government: the noes have it …
Margaret Beckett will undoubtedly make just as big an impact on housing as she did during the foot and mouth epidemic: none.Mike Morgan
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… and, well, you get the point
So the government may ditch its own standards on eco-towns. Ministers need to get a much higher calibre of advice on this.
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Who’s suing whom A round-up of the writs in the Technology and Construction Court
Berkeley Homes vs Danel and Alexandra Cleland-James
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CommentWebmaster review: Feilden Clegg Bradley website
Following Feilden Clegg Bradley’s recent Stirling prize victory, we take a look at www.fcbstudios.com to see if its website design matches its Accordia project
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Sheppard Robson
Camden is usually a good place to spot celebrities, be it Amy Winehouse or the Mighty Boosh.
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Observations on Beckett's first speech as housing minister: 2
There was one intriguing bit in Margaret Beckett's speech to the Housing Market Intelligence conference yesterday that baffled me at the time and I am glad to say baffled others.She said: "On land supply, there may be ways that we can reduce the risk to new developments, by bringing forward ...
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Observations on Beckett's first speech as housing minister: 1
I spent yesterday at the Housing Market Intelligence conference in London. Naturally I found it excellent. Of course I would say that as I'm involved in it.Bias taken into account, here is just one of a many of observations from the conference.Margaret Beckett gave her first speech as the newly ...
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Bright spots in the gloom says Experian's latest construction forecast
I've just received an email from James Hastings, head of construction futures at Experian Business Strategies with the latest forecast update attached.And, not a surprise, it was gloomier than the summer forecast, which then saw the industry overall stumbling rather than plunging into recession this year and next. It is ...
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A hint of comfort in the icy housing market
If you take an optimistic view of life you may find some comfort in the latest housing market survey from the surveyors' body RICS.For pessimists there remains plenty of scope for concern.A glimmer of hope can be found in the fact that the survey found that in some regions there ...
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Could anyone have seen this coming? Well, yes actually
Normality is finally being rewritten - the world is waking up to the fact that the past decade or so was extraordinary and bred extraordinary folly.Accompanying this awakening I hear the phrase "no one could have seen this coming" so often of late. I may have used the phrase myself.So, ...
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Future market expects a near 40% fall in house prices
The futures market has unsurprisingly taken an even darker view of house prices over the past month as the Tradition Future HPI latest figures show.The market now puts the peak to trough fall in the average house price at 38% (as measured on the Halifax non-seasonally adjusted index). And this ...
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CommentPre-action protocol: How not to impress a judge
The pre-action protocol is a simple, practical measure that’s meant to save money and keep you lot out of court. So don’t go getting too clever about it
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Relocation, relocation
The increase in Middle East-related articles has been fantastic, and uncannily timely for me, given that I am looking to relocate to Abu Dhabi. However, I am not sure where you obtained your rental prices from, as your figure of £18,000, or 120,000 dirhams, per year is way off the ...
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CommentBlowing in the wind
Alistair Darling’s efforts to resuscitate Britain’s financial services sector seem, for the moment at least, to have worked.
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CommentFanning the flames
What is it with the media that it has to mention that there was wood in a building that caught fire and/or that it was “timber framed” (“Fire in Bath”, 26 September, page 9)?
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Adjudication to recover fees: Wishing you a speedy recovery
Consultants should be aware of the full range of tools at their disposal for recovering their fees. Adjudication offers a possible alternative to traditional methods