Opinion – Page 566
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CommentThe green choke-chain
Architects and other designers face environmental liabilities that will be extremely hard to comply with – but potentially ruinous if ignored, says Ian Abley
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Transatlantic drift
The neat substitution of “USA” for “UK” in a quote attributed to me (“Architect quits over troubled Nato project”, 10 September, page 10) certainly makes for more titillating and incendiary copy than the facts.
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Getting the wind-up
There are less catastrophic, but just as effective, methods of securing payment than resorting to a winding-up petition (13 August, page 34; Letters, 17 September, page 32).
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Delayed reaction
The letter from Peter Atherton regarding the lack of skilled labour (3 September, page 35) brings to mind some information I read in Peter Nicholson’s Encyclopedia of Architecture.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Chris Donald, former editor of Viz magazine, raises a cheer for Victorian station houses and two fingers to a 1960s office block
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Back issues - September 1914
Lessons from Germany: Absent architects and the French Parthenon …
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CommentGenerals and mercenaries
If construction and warfare have anything in common, it’s that the top brass position themselves a safe distance from the people on the front line
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CommentWhat are you implying?
The hills of Stockport were alive with implied terms, or so Mowlem and one of its subcontractors, PHI Group, thought. But were they right?
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CommentMoney’s silver tongue
You can ask an adjudicator to step down from an adjudication but as it is his decision, and his fee, the likelihood is that he’ll find compelling reasons to stay
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Bluefield development
The government wants about 2500 wind turbines constructed in six years, many on the North Sea. This raises interesting contractual issues for those building them …
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Designers in the dock
The Health and Safety Executive is targeting consultants who do not comply with the CDM Regulations. Two recent cases highlight the dangers of non-compliance
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Demanding satisfaction
Brighton. Buxton. Broadway. Bradford. Britain’s most lively townscapes gained their individual character because development was in the hands of local specialists. Today most of the country’s output comes from volume housebuilders, and they work wherever there is a local market.
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CommentIn defence of Peter
A message to letter-writers and sub-editors: we’re lucky to have Peter Lobban as head of the CITB, and his remuneration package reflects this fact
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CommentHolyrood: The reckoning
Even after the acres of column inches and the yards of screeching headlines dedicated to the creation of the Scottish parliament building, the Fraser report still manages to add another degree of chill.
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CommentDown to brass tacks
Everybody knows court cases are horribly expensive, but then so are ‘cheaper’ methods such as adjudication and mediation. So here’s a way to save money