Opinion – Page 530
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The dawning of an age …
Saturday night on Channel 4 boded well: baby off to bed nice and early, settle down with the wife and a nice glass of rioja, Kevin McCloud’s learned tones and a deserved early win for the Stealth House.
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… Crossed wires
… Crossed wiresThe Treasury castigates government contracts for being monstrously late and over budget.
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Strength in numbers
Ian Abley confuses co-operation with submissiveness in his attack on collaborative working (14 October).
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Nothing personal
Ian Abley’s column got me to challenge my thinking as a proponent of non-adversarial teamworking.
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Get to know each other better
I was interested to read recently published research by consultant Deloitte that highlighted the worrying yet unsurprising fact that “two-thirds of UK businesses do not even ask for detailed reporting” from suppliers.
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Don’t look up …
This is a photo from Khan el-Khalili in Cairo. The public (including us) thought nothing of walking under this JCB while it was in operation – it was being used for lifting concrete drainage sections. (It was a nice gesture that the guys stopped to smile at the camera.)
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CommentA waste of energy
When you put out a tender, you often get a bid that comes in 40% lower than the rest. The thing to do is to save yourself a lot of trouble and bin it …
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CommentHang on, Ken
The latest column by one of our graduate panel asks how you square the London mayor’s renewable energy targets with planning rules – and the developer’s bottom line
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Hot air
The defendants installed an extractor fan on their property which protruded through the side of the wall into the claimant’s rear garden. The claimant commenced legal proceedings arguing that the extractor fan trespassed into her garden and that it also constituted a nuisance. The claimant sought an injunction requiring the ...
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CommentRed-tape rollback
The European commission has taken the first tentative steps in its campaign to make EU businesses more competitive by cutting regulation. And there’s a long way to go …
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CommentLet the games end
More and more decent contractors are opting out of tricky public projects. If the government wants us back to build its Olympics, it’ll just have to outlaw retentions
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CommentGoing global
Global expansion should never be a vanity project and requires mastery of a tricky formula, but the payback for clients, staff and corporation can be immense
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CommentWonders & blunders
Euan McEwan applauds the contextual subtlety of the Glasgow School of Art and decries a brutal misfit in rural Bedfordshire
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CommentLet’s be reasonable
We should get one or two things straight at the outset. We’re not against the Building Regulations.
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Out of time
This was a reclaiming motion from a decision of Lord Eassie of 14 April 2004. The pursuer was seeking to enforce an adjudicator’s decision. The enforcement was defended on the grounds that the adjudicator’s decision was “ultra vires” and should be set aside.A referral notice was given to the adjudicator ...
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A late call
The contractor carried out work in respect of the claimant’s property. The works were completed and a final certificate was issued on 11 March 2005. The contract was based on the JCT standard form 1998 edition private without quantity. On 6 April the defendant served a notice of adjudication. On ...