Opinion – Page 524
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Rab lets rip
I should know by now not to read Colin Harding’s regular attacks on architects as they just wind me up, but he cannot go unchallenged.
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CommentState-of-the-art stupidity
Thanks to our readers for contributing this gallery of health and safety blunders from around the world...
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Unphased
In 2002 a plan to regenerate Hastings and Bexhill was approved. The proposals were for a mixed development that would proceed in two phases. Phase 1 included the submission of a detailed planning application for infrastructure proposals, and associated surface water attenuation measures, for part of the site. Phase 2 ...
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CommentA Christmas dinner
When it comes to the economics of happiness, a guaranteed maximum price can entail unacceptable costs – as this festive tale demonstrates
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Comment2005: A landmark year
Twelve months suddenly seems like a long time in contracting. There’s long been a theoretical debate within construction groups about what a contractor is, what it does – and whether that’s worth doing.
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Sorry, that’s discontinued …
A notice of adjudication was issued on 10 June 2004. On 6 July, the claimants served its response. On 7 July the defendant accepted that the adjudicator did not have jurisdiction. The adjudication was discontinued and the defendant paid the adjudicator’s account.The claimant then asked the adjudicator for a decision ...
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CommentDon’t be evasive
Take advantage of the fact that the Construction Industry Scheme has been postponed 12 months because, make no mistake, HM Revenue means business
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Corporate killing north of the border
The expert group set up by the Scottish executive to look at how to solve the conundrum of the ‘controlling mind’ has come up with a distinctive approach
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CommentBrain donors wanted
At what point does a speculative joint venture become the exploitation of the naive or the desperate? Here’s an engineer’s take on this increasingly pressing question
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CommentThe shadow of death
This is the story of how a case of ordinary back pain turned into a long, slow wait to learn the awful truth about a chest X-ray …
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Dodgy DIY
The respondent had agreed to erect a conservatory for the appellant. During the works the respondent had climbed a stepladder and had rested the inner end of a rafter on a lip or flange, which ran round the spider. The respondent inserted a fixing screw, which was supposed to secure ...
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CommentArchitects of our downfall
Colin Harding CABE acts for an architectural elite and against the interests of the construction industry in general. The result is an approach to building that you might call Blairist …
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CommentA fat lot of good
Adjudication is failing the very people it was designed to help – the small contractor with a low-value claim that needs a quick and cheap decision. So what’s to be done?
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CommentWonders & blunders
Roger Protz raises a glass to the London pub that was named after a philanthropist, and pours cold water on a London station
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The appliance of science
Attending the Sustainability Awards organised by Building last month brought home to me that the age of sustainable buildings has finally arrived.
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Tall tale?
I was prompted to write concerning the article in on the design of high-rise building following the events of 9/11 (4 November).