Opinion – Page 489
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CommentThe best laid plans
Rival engineers accidentally lay on parties at the same location, Frank Lampard fails to organise a trip to the zoo and Building hacks somehow conspire to win an intelligence test...
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CommentCausing death and saving lives
The bill on manslaughter and corporate homicide that is midway through its second reading in parliament must ensure that senior managers can be held personally to account
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Men behaving badly
A survey by the Chartered Institute of Building reveals that many in construction have a shockingly complacent attitude to corruption – and don’t even realise that certain practices are criminal
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CommentIt’s going to be a long, long time
STATE YOUR CASE — The latest idea for disposing of nuclear waste is to offer councils financial incentives to bury it in their backyard. But, says Nigel Robson, the progress is measured in decades
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CommentRead the signs
Thanks for the interesting article about waste management (27 October, page 46).
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Silent voices
Regarding your news article on Polish workers (27 October, page 14), I seem to come across many articles concerning the welfare of Eastern European labourers and what they should and shouldn’t have or do.
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Rogers and the Olympic icon
Isn’t the pessimistic tone of Building’s review of progress on the Olympic stadium a little premature (27 October, page 26)?
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Man from the JCT
Jeff Brown’s article on JCT 2005 and third-party rights (27 October, page 54) refers to a glaring omission.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Eric Parry hails one bucolic estate in the Square Mile, and rails against many, many others, all over the country
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Gay and lusty commoners that will ramp and thrive...
BACK ISSUES — October 1945 Sodom and Gomorrah
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CommentAre the Games in trouble already?
London’s euphoria at snatching the Olympic Games from the jaws of Paris has been washed away by a steady flow of news stories about the problems of delivery.
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In the red
The claimant, Nearfield Ltd was one of six parties to a joint venture agreement dated April 2002. Other parties to the agreement included Lincoln Trust Co (Jersey) Ltd (LTC) and LTC’s offshore nominee, Lincoln Nominees Ltd (LNL); second and first defendants respectively. The agreement was entered into for the purposes ...
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CommentMobile generation
WEB WATCH - New phone? Then you’re probably one of a growing band of construction professionals receiving news alerts on the move. Alex Smith reports on our changing relationship to industry news
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CommentBeside the seaside
When cheap flights become a thing of the past, people will once again yearn for good old British seaside resorts. So it’s about time we turned them into places where people might actually want to stay …
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CommentSickness or health
To the RIBA conference in Venice, where we encounter, if not death, then at least disease and depression, while closer to home an industry leader feels distinctly queasy on a site visit …
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CommentDo we have to pay up?
LEGAL AID - A contractor has withheld £18k and is claiming a further £60k from the subbie because the project did not meet practical completion. Is there any way to dismiss the claim?