Opinion – Page 468
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CommentHappy as a herring
More zany fun with Britain’s most surreal industry, which this week tries to sell a chief executive while carting around a 12m mechanical plant and coaxing John Prescott out of that broom cupboard
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Arup
As I’m meeting Arup for a pint, it’s fitting that the venue is a pub called the Engineer. I’m expecting a sombre place, inhabited by locals drinking at half-a-pint-an-hour beneath the fobbed belly of IK Brunel.
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CommentGet it together
A subcontractor that feels ripped off by the main contractor will hardly sing the praises of partnering. But as long as the whole team is involved, it really can work
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CommentGreen for go
A recent sustainability conference came up with some bright ideas for carbon-cutting products, projects and codes. But the time for talking is over. How do we take action?
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CommentReform is a wonderful thing …
After a decade of busily making the planning system worse, the government has finally given the industry some hope that it might actually improve it.
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CommentGooglitarianism
The next step in Google’s total domination of the internet is iGoogle – a facility that means you no longer need any other websites.
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Why don’t we talk any more?
The Technology and Construction Court’s caseload rose by almost one-fifth last year. But with all this litigation and arbitration, we seem to have lost the ability to negotiate and to mediate
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The search for meaning
Rhodia vs Huntsman is the case you’ve been waiting for – the one that explores what ‘reasonable endeavours’ and ‘best endeavours’ really entail. Martino Giaquinto explains
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Now pay for your fun
Of course some of us have drunk too much in our distant – or indeed recent – past. The difference with the RICS young surveyors’ party (18 May, page 11) is that it does not necessarily involve what would in any other scenario be called mindless vandalism.
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Joining the cubs
This has certainly raised the profile of the RICS. Until now, the average Joe had us down as a shadowy outfit somehow connected with lions.
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One rule for them ...
Further to the item in Hansom on 11 May (page 29), I would like to voice my disgust at the item concerning Andrew McAlpine and his use of iTunes.
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Telecoms firm, heal thyself
I read with interest the article about BT’s encouraging more working from home (11 May, page 54).
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Blame where its due
The jury is still out on the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) record on prosecutions resulting from construction fatalities following Ucatt’s Levels of Convictions report and the HSE’s counterclaims. The results paint a confusing picture of the actual number of convictions.
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CommentThe e-decade
Ten years ago, the internet was in its infancy, and everyday words like Google and blogging would have just been strange, meaningless sounds. Alex Smith reflects on how we got from there to here
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CommentTwo cheers for Tony Blair
The back story of the Blair years is undoubtedly one of economic growth.
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A bit of a misunderstanding
This was an appeal by William David Lloyd and MGL (Rugby) Ltd against a decision that they were liable to pay Andrew Michael Sutcliffe a share of the profit made from a residential building development. Lloyd had, through one of his companies, Nimega Ltd, obtained two options to purchase the ...