Opinion – Page 558

  • Comment

    The whiff of bias

    2005-01-14T00:00:00Z

    A&S Enterprises Ltd, the claimant, sought to enforce the judgment of an adjudicator against Kema Holdings Ltd. The defendant was ordered to pay £89,475.86. The claimant was a building contractor carrying out work in respect of a development in Alfreton, Derbyshire. The contract was a JCT 1998 Edition with ...

  • Comment

    Punishing penalty

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    P&O operated a freight service and a yard at the port at Liverpool. In the yard P&O employees loaded and off-loaded containers to and from ferries. The containers were lifted from the HGVs by large trucks. An employee of P&O standing in the yard was struck by one of these ...

  • Jonathan Meades
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    The dismal profession

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    How has architecture come to be such a regulated, disciplined, controlled and artistically emasculated business? And what can be done to save it?

  • Hansom
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    Hansom

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Hungover, unshaven, with his pocket full of postcards and turn-ups full of canapés, our diarist reflects on the party season – and his many calendars

  • Robert Akenhead
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    Come closer, my dears …

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Want to know the future? Then cross our very own legal astrologer’s palm with silver as he gazes into his crystal ball and makes his predictions for 2005

  • Comment

    Interview: Rupert Jackson

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Just three months into the job, the judge in charge of the Technology and Construction Court has already established a reformist agenda.

  • Comment

    Some relationship advice

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Dear Tony, I have been seeing a contractor for some time now, and although he says he loves me, he will not commit to a serious relationship. What should I do?

  • Comment

    If …

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Now 2004 is behind us, let’s have some fun plotting how to kill off its more doubtful legal practices, and how to breathe life into a couple of neglected innovations

  • Comment

    Playing by the same rules

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest the article on the Glendoe hydroelectric power project in Scotland (3 December, page 10).

  • Comment

    All in the forecast

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Further to Malcolm Taylor’s letter (10 December, page 29), it may well be puzzling that the services element of a building does not receive the same level of prescriptive design as the architectural elements.

  • Comment

    Mr BTEC responds

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    As a course director (“Mr BTEC”) at the College of West Anglia in Norfolk, I would like to reassure readers that Della Madgwick’s unfortunate experience, recounted in her letter of 3 December, need not be universal.

  • Comment

    The price of CSCS

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    I read with amazement that the CSCS scheme is £5m in the red (3 December, page 9).

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    Jack’s blunder

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Jack Pringle’s comments (3 December, page 34) demonstrate how out of touch with reality the RIBA remains in 2004, with its obsession for style before function.

  • Comment

    Perfect 10 (well, almost)

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    I was interested to read Rudi Klein’s recent article about the benefits of single project insurance to the construction industry (26 November, page 51).

  • Comment

    Get ’em young

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Andrew Williams’ article “The QS’ apprentice” (19 November, page 33) raises some interesting issues about how we train future practitioners, and will no doubt provoke much debate.

  • Comment

    The name’s Bond … retention bond

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    A number of British Constructional Steelwork Association members may choose to give bonds in place of accepting cash retention (26 November, page 63), but I hope you don’t think I’m being too pedantic if I remind you that this is no longer a BCSA matter but one for individual companies.

  • Denise Chevin
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    Rule Britannia

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    How’s this for a list of new year’s resolutions? I will not design buildings with sexy floor-to-ceiling glass cladding.

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    Don’t delay

    2004-12-17T00:00:00Z

    In 2003 Severn Trent Water Limited (STW) commenced its tendering process for the award of contracts for the maintenance, renewal and improvement of its reservoirs, pipelines, pumping stations, treatment plants and sewerage systems. The contract was a five year programme of considerable value, being somewhere in the region of £1.5-£2bn.STW ...

  • Colin Harding
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    Clucking hell

    2004-12-17T00:00:00Z

    If construction has been likened to a flock of quarrelsome chickens, it is because industry bodies are concerned with nothing but their own place in the pecking order

  • Hansom
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    Hansom

    2004-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Yes, folks, the season of goodwill is upon us and it’s easy to forget the intrigue, bile, acrimony and disappointments of the past year. So here’s a reminder …