Opinion – Page 508

  • Comment

    The enthusiasts' revolution

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Sir David King's enthusiasm for nuclear power is taking us back into the mainframe trap.

  • Comment

    A response to Ray

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Ray O'Rourke claims that CITB-ConstructionSkills is failing in its efforts to attract young people to the industry (19 May, page 14). I'm more than happy to set the record straight.

  • Comment

    Willmott's women

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    I wonder if Ray O'Rourke works in the same industry as me? As the head of HR for another major contractor, I am very aware that the notion that a building site "is not a place where women fit" left our culture many years ago.

  • Comment

    The mother of invention

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Your article "For whom the (school) bell tolls", (28 April, page 24) raised the point that budget overruns associated with new academies can be attributed to extravagant and ill-considered design.

  • Comment

    Who was that masked misogynist

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest your anonymous article on design team meetings (12 May, page 38) and came to the conclusion that your writer was male and a bit of a misogynist.

  • Comment

    Jumping is not the only option

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    It sounds like your anonymous architect contributor's problem was chairmanship. If he was the chairman (he doesn't say who was), the solution was in his own hands - control the meeting.

  • Gus Alexander
    Comment

    No nukes

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    It seems the government's decision-makers have made up their minds that we need another set of nuclear power stations. Surely there's a better alternative?

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Rok rocks, Cyril Sweett hits eBay and descriptions of Amec and Alan Lovell prove elusive. At least you know where you are with building control …

  • Rt Hon Margaret Hodge
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    Leader

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    The domestic repair, maintenance and home improvement sector is large, diverse and fragmented.

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    The vexed question of sex

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Step forward Fiona Macdonald to collect the Chief Executive of the Year Award

  • Comment

    Land grab

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Ms Sugarman was the freehold owner of land known as Ruston Withdean Avenue, Brighton. Sugarman sought a declaration that the defendants were not entitled to the benefit of convenants set out in a schedule attached to the conveyance of Sugarman's property. Alternatively Sugarman sought a declaration that the defendents were ...

  • Michael Latham
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    A civil partnership

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    We all know partnering works, so why isn't everyone doing it? We should be setting a better example to the young people joining the industry

  • Robert Akenhead
    Comment

    Courtly love

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    The furore surrounding Multiplex vs Cleveland Bridge has thrown the spotlight on the TCC, which after a bad patch is now winning the hearts of litigants

  • Comment

    Ignorance is no excuse

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Many small firms flout environmental regulations because of a mistaken belief they won't be prosecuted. Now there's a website that spells out your obligations

  • Stuart Pemble
    Comment

    Very damaging

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    There are signs that the courts may get even tougher on cartels by imposing a more stringent definition of compensation

  • Comment

    Bland aid

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    The article on healthcare building in Wigan (5 May, pages 48-51) seemed to be trying to find fault with LIFT as a mechanism without being terribly successful. There seemed to be an uncomfortable acknowledgement that it was better, but not necessarily good.

  • Harding (left) and Bennetts: Both had a point to make
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    The plywood

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    In a former life as a site manager, I was charged with carrying out £800,000 of modifications to a building designed by a signature designer of international renown. I had an outline programme, budget and a designer novated, for want of a better word, to the main (negotiated) contract. At ...

  • Comment

    83 workers, 0 CSCS cards

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    There is nothing new in anything Suzannah Nichol says about the ease of obtaining CSCS cards (21 April, page 46).

  • Comment

    The view from The Edge

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    A series of debates on the looming energy crisis has concluded that UK construction can lead the way in developing ‘Kyoto Plan B’.

  • Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?
    Comment

    In the detail

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Can you identify this building to win a £25 drinks voucher?