Opinion – Page 561
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Fresh blood at the RIBA
The RIBA council has in the past been accused of being too conservative in its thinking and edicts, and as with all institutions there is a tendency to be retrospective.
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Safety … mañana
Here’s a slightly disturbing picture I took in Spain recently of roofers working on a housing development.
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Small, but perfectly formed
So, architect Alain Head has the solution to our housing problems (29 October, page 28).
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French lesson
Whether Gus Alexander is writing about the dome, the Cambridge Cattle Market Development or his experiences on small-scale building contracts, he seems to put my thoughts into words nearly every time.
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The true cost
With reference to the adjudication survey on the Building website (29 October, page 15) and concern about the rise in adjudicator’s fees, it is commendable that someone is trying to get statistical information in order to better analyse the benefits or otherwise of adjudication.
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Regal, but not necessarily legal
With reference to your recent articles on professional organisations and their amalgamation into one body, I wonder if any of the present organisations have considered what the effect of the changes to the EU constitution might be.
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CommentMystic Michael
Can we gaze into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow? Or, for that matter, say how the Construction Act will be reformed …
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Reasons to be considered
Tame made an application under Section 68 of the 1996 Arbitration Act to challenge an arbitrator’s award. More particularly, Tame sought to rely on the reasons published by the arbitrator separately from the award expressly on terms that no use should be made of them in any proceeding relating to ...
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CommentHow our house fell down
British domestic design in the 20th century is a story of architectural vandalism committed by the very rich and eagerly emulated by the middle class
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CommentBlind eyes and bloody kids
Contractors have to be on their guard against potential defects or dangers even though they aren’t covered in the contract – as these cases illustrate
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No room for horse traders
Once upon a time, you could end a dispute with a global settlement and trot off to your insurer to ask for compensation. It is no longer that simple
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Garbage in, garbage out
Being armed to the teeth with a fancy computer program is all very well but, as a recent case illustrates, what matters is the quality of the data fed into it
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Calling all megalomaniacs
In your article “The greatest buildings never built” (22 October, page 42), you refer to Buckminster Fuller’s New York dome as a “megalomaniac plan”.
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Unite behind unitisation
Unitised curtain walling is by no means the new technology you think it is (22 October, page 76).
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Thatcher’s child
I read with great, but amused, interest your article on the stream of self-employment now beginning in the construction industry (8 October, page 114).
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Beyond Kyoto
Regardless of whether the nations of the world embrace the objectives of Kyoto (Tom Barker’s article, 8 October, page 31), the impeding energy crisis will not go away.
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Our lives in your hands
Designers seem to ignore their responsibilities under CDM regulations, in that they should be designing out risk wherever possible.