Opinion – Page 510
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How to get a break
The guidance on tax breaks for cleaning up contaminated land and buildings provided by Davis Langdon Crosher and James in the infrastructure cost model (28 April, page 65) contained a couple of misleading statements that I would like to correct.
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Football folly
Women represent a significant labour force, yet have always been underrepresented in the UK construction industry. Patricia Hewitt, when minister for trade and industry, claimed that there are women who want to work in construction but are discouraged by its macho, male-dominated image.
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CommentIt's ok. He's holding on to a tile.
Thanks to Peter Smith of Raymond Smith Patrnership in Eastbourne for this week's example of man's indifference to mortality.
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Without warning
The respondent, Guinness was the majority shareholder in a UK company, CPL. The appellants, Kanoria commenced arbitration proceedings in India against Guinness and CPL, claiming that CPL had failed to pay a sum of money to Kanoria under a business agreement subject to Indian law. At the time Kanoria ...
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CommentGet your head round this
Jack Lemley is to run Olympic projects under the NEC3 standard form, about which there is ‘massive ignorance' in the industry. So how can it wise up?
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CommentAll fall down
Doug Masson is a construction lawyer who happened to be walking past Jurys Inn hotel as 15 floors of scaffolding collapsed. Here he recalls the tragic events of that day …
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CommentA lesson in life
A lawyer's education is not complete until he has some work done on his house, whereupon he discovers that contracts matter less than a pint with the governor …
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The last word
I was very disappointed that the contents page in Friday's magazine (21 April, page 4) styled me as a "professional architect hater". It is patently obvious from the debate with Rab Bennetts that I am not.
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Taking issue with Rab Bennetts
I must congratulate you on the publication of the debate between Colin Harding and Rab Bennetts. I wish to raise one issue and make one objection.
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The view from The Edge
If sustainability is on the National Curriculum, isn't it about time it became a central tenet of the government's schoolbuilding programmes?
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The rules of engagement
In "The limits of trust" (7 April, page 70), Gillian Birkby stresses the need for two things in contracts for the procurement of designers' services. The first is "some way of identifying exactly what services the designer is to provide", and the second is a mechanism for identifying who is ...
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CommentA foreign concept
From all corners of the globe, construction giants have descended on the UK in search of riches. But our overseas friends will only make it if they learn from the locals
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CommentEmail fatigue
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, with everything we need at the click of a button. So how come our working lives are just getting longer and lonelier?
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CommentWonders & blunders
Stephen Nice contrasts an 1880s London meat and fish market with a less palatable 1980s redevelopment
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CommentHow to build an empire
As a deal, it is every marketing man's dream. In a single negotiation a UK consultancy can transform itself overnight into an enormous international player with offices across the world.